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.
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.
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 …