Becoming Assamese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Becoming Assamese write by Madhumita Sengupta. This book was released on 2016-05-12. Becoming Assamese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the making of colonial Northeast India and offers a new perspective to the study of the Assamese identity in the nineteenth century as a distinctly nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon, not confined to linguistic parameters alone. It studies crucial markers of the self — history, customs, food, dress, new religious beliefs — and symbols considered desirable by the provincial middle class and the way these fitted in with the latter’s nationalist subjectivities in the face of an emphatic Bengali cultural nationalism. The author shows how colonialism was intrinsically linked to the assertion of middle class intelligentsia in the region and was instrumental in eroding the essential malleability of societal processes nurtured by the Ahom state. Rich with fresh research data, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of history, political science, area studies, and to anyone interested in understanding Northeast India.
The Muslim Question in Assam and Northeast India
The Muslim Question in Assam and Northeast India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Muslim Question in Assam and Northeast India write by Monoj Kumar Nath. This book was released on 2021-03-30. The Muslim Question in Assam and Northeast India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a systematic study of the transformation of the specific socio-political identity of the Muslims in Assam. It discusses the issues of Muslims under India’s ‘indigenous secularism’, Hindu nationalism and the rise of majoritarian politics; Muslim immigration into Assam after Independence; the Assam Movement and the shift of Muslims from being a vote bank to an autonomous force in the post-Partition politics of Assam; the role of Jamiat; and the divide between Assamese and the neo-Assamese. It explores the history and contemporary politics of the state to show how they shape the new context of Muslim identity in Assam, where previously an Assamese identity often prevailed over religious and linguistic identity. With the current debates on illegal immigration, the National Register of Citizens of India (NRC) and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, this book will be a timely addition to the existing literature on Muslim minority politics in Assam and northeast India. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political science, sociology, political sociology, minority studies, northeast India studies, demography and immigration studies, and development studies. It will interest those concerned with minority politics, communal politics, identity politics, migration, citizenship issues, and South Asian studies.
Northeast India
Northeast India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Northeast India write by Yasmin Saikia. This book was released on 2017-04-04. Northeast India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Northeast India: A Place of Relations focuses on encounters and experiences between people and cultures, the human and the non-human world, allowing for building of new relationships of friendship and amity in the region. The twelve essays in this volume explore the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of the lived and the loved world of Northeast India from within. The volume employs a variety of perspectives and methodological approaches - literary, historical, anthropological, interpretative politics, and an analytical study of contemporary issues, engaging the people, cultures, and histories in the Northeast with a new outlook. In the study, the region emerges as a place of new happenings in which there is the possibility of continuous expansion of the horizon of history and issues of current relevance facilitating new voices and narratives that circulate and create bonding in the borderland of South, East, and Southeast Asia.
Landscape, Culture, and Belonging
Landscape, Culture, and Belonging - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscape, Culture, and Belonging write by Neeladri Bhattacharya. This book was released on 2019-05-23. Landscape, Culture, and Belonging available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India. Moving away from an exclusive dependence on colonial ethnographies, the authors build their arguments on a varied range of sources: from buranjis to revenue records, survey maps to explorers' diaries, and missionary papers to police files. They question the givennes of the categories through which the region is usually described, and contest the stereotypes by which the people of the region are primitivized. They explore the historical processes whereby the region was surveyed, mapped, understood, represented, politically governed, economically refigured, and historically constituted during the colonial period. Though focused on the experience of Northeast India, the volume also raises substantive questions about the idea of the frontier and the border, the primitive and the modern, and the tribal and the settled, the local and the trans-local.
Assam District Gazetteers: Sibsagar
Assam District Gazetteers: Sibsagar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assam District Gazetteers: Sibsagar write by Basil Copleston Allen. This book was released on 1906. Assam District Gazetteers: Sibsagar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
