Society, Politics, and Development in North East India

Society, Politics, and Development in North East India
Author: Asok Kumar Ray
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2008
Genre: India, Northeastern
ISBN: 9788180695728

Contributed articles chiefly with reference to rural development in Northeastern India; includes articles on cultural history of the region.

A Century of Protests

A Century of Protests
Author: Arupjyoti Saikia
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2015-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317325591

Addressing an important gap in the historiography of modern Assam, this book traces the relatively unexplored but profound transformations in the agrarian landscape of late- and post-colonial Assam that were instrumental in the making of modern Assamese peasantry and rural politics. It discusses the changing relations between various sections of peasantry, state, landed gentry, and politics of different ideological hues — nationalist, communist and socialist — and shows how a primarily agrarian question concerning peasantry came to occupy the centre stage in the nationalist politics of the state. It will especially interest scholars of history, agrarian and peasant studies, sociology, and contemporary politics, as also those concerned with Northeast India.

Becoming Assamese

Becoming Assamese
Author: Madhumita Sengupta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317197771

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.

Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions in Resource use and Conservation

Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions in Resource use and Conservation
Author: Niranjan Roy
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2020-01-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 303032463X

This book presents the outcomes of the 2017 national workshop and international conference organized by CEENR of ISEC, Bengaluru and Assam University Silchar. Addressing the threats to biodiversity and sustainable development resulting from the impacts of human induced pressures on ecosystems and global-warming-driven climate change is a major challenge. It requires increased knowledge and an enhanced information base in order to devise local policies to improve the adaptive capacity of vulnerable socio-ecological systems in developing countries. In this context, the book presents research that has the potential to benefit the environment and empower communities. It appeals to researchers investigating diverse aspects of socio-ecological-biological systems to create strategies for resource use, conservation and management to ensure sustainability.

Peasantry Their Problem and Protest in Assam (1858-1894)

Peasantry Their Problem and Protest in Assam (1858-1894)
Author: Kamal Chandra Pathak
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2014-02-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1482816180

The book especially deals with the peasant unrest and uprisings in the erstwhile three districts of Assam viz. Kamrup, Darrang, and Nowgong from 1858 to 1894. The year 1858 has been taken as a starting point, as it has a special importance in the history of the British India. After the Great Mutiny of 1857, Assam, like other parts of India, went into the hands of the British Crown in 1858. The colonial government decided to augment the rate of revenue on land from this year with a view to meet their loss in the Great Mutiny. Hence, this year may be termed as the confrontation Year between the peasants and the government, which continued up to 1894 and even beyond that. The peasant unrest of Assam has fetched some new aspects into focus, and some of them has been referred herein proper places. The specific period (185894) has yet not been studied, albeit lots have been done in this field. It is because of that that it has received not due attention as is given to the same phenomena in other parts of India. This work is an endeavor to give as far as possible a comprehensive, accessible, and crystal picture of a series of complex scenario.

Empire's Garden

Empire's Garden
Author: Jayeeta Sharma
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2011-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0822350491

A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape.