ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the memory of the Anglo-Kuki War (AKW) during the past hundred years. It will be seen that the memory of the AKW went through a rough terrain from being an agitating and suppressed postwar memory to the collective memory of the Kuki community in its hundred years. In between, it underwent a phase of romanticised memory, then its invisibility and silence, and the gradual re-emergence in the face of contested ethnic conflict and state neglect. In struggling between ethnic contestation, community silences and state conspiracy of silence, the AKW had eventually emerged as the shared memory of the Kukis to anchor their history and identity. Despite being known, however, it still remains as ‘unofficial’ and ‘vernacular’ memory.
