Kwantlen Polytechnic University historian Dr. Kyle Jackson is being recognized with literary honours for his book The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj: Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890–1920.
Jackson received the Ecclesiastical History Society’s 2024 Book Prize, and an honourable mention by the Association of Asian Studies for the 2025 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize.
The book presents a history of Mizoram, a state in Northeast India, from historical Indigenous perspectives of encounters with empire from the 1890s to the 1920s.
“At its heart, the book showcases the urgency of decolonizing history in the region, and globally,” says Jackson. “It identifies a huge range of historical assumptions and categories of analysis — all received from the colonial era — and then sets out to challenge them, often in ways that end up turning them completely inside out.”
Learn more about Jackson’s book here.