This book is an analysis of BJP's politics in Assam in recent years, studying the core strategic approaches, the contradictions and the outcomes.
This book is an analysis of BJP's politics in Assam in recent years, studying the core strategic approaches, the contradictions and the outcomes.
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.
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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.
This work deals with the years immediately preceding the Partition of India and takes up issues of land, language, immigration, and identity in Assam, where they continue to occupy public space. The effects of the Partition continue to hang as a spectre over the entire region. I…