India against itself : Assam and the politics of nationality / Sanjib Baruah.

By:

Baruah, Sanjib

Material type:

TextSeries: Critical historiesPublication details: New Delhi ; Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: xxiii, 257 p. 22 cmISBN:

081223491X

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Contents:

CONTENTS: Theoretical Considerations: The Limits of "Nation-Building" -- Colonial Geography as Destiny: Assam as a Province of British India -- The Making of a Land Frontier: Assam and Its Immigrants - - Cultural Politics of Language, Subnationalism, and Pan- Indianism -- Contested Identity, Culture Wars, and the Breakup of Colonial Assam -- Protest Against Immigration, Ethnic Rifts, and Assam's Crisis of Governability -- Militant Subnationalism, Human Rights, and the Chasm with Pan-Indianism -- "We Are Bodos, Not Assamese": Contesting a Subnational Narrative -- Conclusion: India Against Itself.

Summary: "According to Sanjib Baruah, loosely organized federations are not only less prone to violent conflicts, they make better democracies and, in our era of globalization, they make more economic sense as well. He illustrates the argument with an analysis of conflicts in India's northeastern province of Assam." "Baruah offers an original and lucid interpretation of the political and economic history of Assam since it became a part of British India and one of the world's leading tea- producing regions in the nineteenth century."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references ([231]-243) and index.

"According to Sanjib Baruah, loosely organized federations are not only less prone to violent conflicts, they make better democracies and, in our era of globalization, they make more economic sense as well. He illustrates the argument with an analysis of conflicts in India's northeastern province of Assam." "Baruah offers an original and lucid interpretation of the political and economic history of Assam since it became a part of British India and one of the world's leading tea- producing regions in the nineteenth century."--Jacket.