2024/06/21 by Iralu, Elspeth
#Nagaland #archives #colonialism and decolonization #sovereignty #storytelling
paper · doi:10.14288/acme.v23i2.2396
In this letter, Elspeth Iralu initiates a time-travelling correspondence with her paternal grandfather, Vichazelhu Iralu, about his dreams for the Naga sovereignty movement. The letter grieves the loss of personal and political archives that were stolen, disappeared, and destroyed through processes of colonization. Iralu offers letter-writing, shaped by Naga modes of storytelling, as an anticolonial epistemology that enacts Naga sovereignty in the here and now.