Martial Traditions of North East India

Martial Traditions of North East India
Author: Sristidhar Dutta
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9788180693359

Contributed seminar papers presented at the conference organized by Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, and Dept. of History, Arunachal University.

Regional perspectives on India's Partition

Regional perspectives on India's Partition
Author: Anjali Gera Roy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2023-05-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000829243

This book expands the scope of understanding of the vast, albeit uneven, experience of the 1947 Partition of India by including localities and life stories from and beyond the regions of Punjab and Bengal. Building on existing research on Partition, the chapters present and analyse the consequences of Partition displacement and the resilience of communities in different parts of the nation. Regions discussed include the Chitmahals, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Hyderabad, Andaman Islands, and Jammu and Kashmir. The contributors show that the heterogeneity of people’s experiences reside in spaces of the family, home, neighbourhoods, villages, towns and cities refugee settlements, letters, memoirs, biographies, films, fiction, oral histories, and testimonies. The book examines the Partition’s complex effects in regions, localities and contexts and its material and psychological ramifications. This book is a unique and comprehensive contribution in enabling a more complex understanding of how Partition played out and continues to do so for groups and generations across India. It will be of interest to a multidisciplinary audience, including history, literature, comparative literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, modern Asian studies, studies of South Asia, and studies of memory and trauma.

Placing the Frontier in British North-East India

Placing the Frontier in British North-East India
Author: Reeju Ray
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2023-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192887092

The book is a study of the travels of colonial law into the North-East frontier of the British Empire in India. Focusing on the nineteenth century, it examines the relationship of law and space, and indigenous place-making. Inhabitants of the frontier hills examined in this book were not defined as British subjects, yet they were incorporated within the colonial legal framework. The work examines the nature of this legal limbo that produced both the hills and their inhabitants as interruptions but equally as integral to the imperial project. Through a study of place-making by indigenous inhabitants of the frontier, it further demonstrates the heterogeneous narratives of self and belonging found in sites of orality and kinship that shape the hills in the present day.

Frontiers, Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies in South Asia

Frontiers, Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies in South Asia
Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2020-11-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 100008423X

This book uses cross-cultural analysis across Eurasia and Afro-Asia to trace the roots of contemporary border disputes and insurgencies in South Asia. It discusses the way frontiers of British India, and consequently the modern states of India and Pakistan, were drafted through negotiations backed up by organized violence, showing how this conce

Strangers Of The Mist

Strangers Of The Mist
Author: Sanjoy Hazarika
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2000-10-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 8184753349

This book would have been completed earlier but for events that disrupted millions of lives across India, including those of journalists : the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya, by a Hindu mob on 6 December 1992 and the communal riots that followed across the country. In January 1993, the selective massacres of Muslims at Bombay and the devastating revenge bomb blasts there two months later led to extensive travelling and reporting for the New York Times. In addition, there was 'normal reporting' : the Punjab, environmental, economic and political issues such as the billion dollar scam.