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

By:

Baruah, Sanjib

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford India paperbacksPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c1999.Description: xxiii, 257 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780195658408 (pbk.)
019565840X (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

320.954162 BAR 23 000146

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Table of 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	320.954162 BAR 000146 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000146

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

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