Identification in India -- Colonial origins of Ahom -- The memory of the local : the stories the Buranjis tell -- Rationalizing a history -- Performance and politics of Tai-Ahom -- There was no plot in the people's struggle.
Annotation
A study of identity and its connection to memory, focusing on the history of community identity formation among the Tai-Ahom in Assam.
A study of identity and its connection to memory, focusing on the history of community identity formation among the Tai-Ahom in Assam.
Chiefly with reference to Assam.
Chiefly with reference to Assam.
Diverging from reductionist studies of Northeast India and its multifarious conflicts, this book presents an exclusive and intricate, empirical and theoretical study of Assam as a conflict zone. It traces the genesis and evolution of the ethnic and nationalistic politics in the …