The History Of Assam
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A Comprehensive History of Assam
Author | : S. L. Baruah |
Publisher | : Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Limited |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9788121500159 |
Illustrations: Few Maps Description: This work is the first analytical and comprehensive account of the civilization of Assam from earliest to the present times. Its object is ti acquaint the readers with the forces and factors moulding the society and culture of Assam through the ages. It analyses the salient features of Assamese civilization giving proper weightage to the contributions made by different tribes or ethnic groups of both the hills and the plains as well as by the followers of different faiths towards its growth and development. The work is divided into four parts. Part I gives a brief idea of the present state of Assam. It also discusses the source materials as well as the pre-history and the proto-history of the land. Part II deals with the ancient period beginning with the legendary kings till the dismemberment of the ancient kingdom of Pragjyotisha or Kamarupa in the close of the twelfth century AD. Part III treats the history of the medieval period from the rise of different tribal states on the ruins of the ancient kingdom till the fall of the Ahom monarchy in 1826. Part IV deals with the modern period covering the history of the British rule upto the attainment of the country's independence in 1947. It also contains a chapter dealing briefly with the events after independence. The authoress has made full use of all available sources, published and unpublished, preserved in different libraries within and outside the state. Attempt has been made to make the information up-to-date with proper notes and references and the treatment clear and precise. The work also contains a bibliography, glossary and index.
The History of Assam
Author | : Priyam Goswami |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Assam (India) |
ISBN | : 9788125046530 |
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.
History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and Northeastern Frontier
Author | : Leslie Waterfield Shakespear |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Assam (India) |
ISBN | : |
Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826–2000
Author | : Arupjyoti Saikia |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2011-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199088810 |
This book presents a comprehensive account of the transformation of Assam's forests and ecology from early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It locates present-day ecological conflicts in the colonial era when contest over forest, land, and resource began to take new shape. Arupjyoti Saikia delineates how forest resources in Assam were mapped and intergrated with mechant capitalism since the early nineteenth century. He shows how imperial forestry practices led to changes in traditional resource utilization patterns. The book also examines the political economy of conservation practices. It explores the question of law and conservation, role of institutions and organizations, and the changing role of the forests in imperial economy. The book argues how the making of forest policy in the postcolonial period was defind by the complexities of the political matrix. It discusses plantation, silvicultural practices, protection and regeneration of forests, and livlihood practices. The author also analyses public debates surrounding ecology and environmental changes in conservation practices after the 1980 Act.
Frontier Cultures
Author | : Manjeet Baruah |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-11-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000365794 |
The study of Assamese literature has so far been in terms of the history of the Assamese language. This book is a history of the narratives written in Assamese language and its relation to the process of region formation. The literature dealt with ranges from pre-colonial chronicles, ballads and drama to modern genres of fiction and critical writing in Assamese language. Taking the Brahmaputra valley and Assamese literature as case studies, the author attempts to link literature, its nature and use, to processes of region formation, arguing that such a study needs to take the context of historical geography into consideration. The book views region formation in north-east India as a dialectical process, that is, the dialectic between the shared and the distinct in inter-group and community relations. It borrows an anthropological approach to study written narratives and cultures so as to locate such narratives in specific processes of region formation.
Social and Economic History of Assam
Author | : Rajen Saikia |
Publisher | : Manohar Publishers |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2002-10 |
Genre | : Assam (India) |
ISBN | : 9788173044311 |
Landscape, Culture and Belonging
Author | : Neeladri Bhattacharya |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108481299 |
This volume is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India.
India Against Itself
Author | : Sanjib Baruah |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1999-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812234916 |
In an era of failing states and ethnic conflict, violent challenges from dissenting groups in the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, several African countries, and India give cause for grave concern in much of the world. And it is in India where some of the most turbulent of these clashes have been taking place. One resulted in the creation of Pakistan, and militant separatist movements flourish in Kashmir, Punjab, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Assam. In India Against Itself, Sanjib Baruah focuses on the insurgency in Assam in order to explore the politics of subnationalism. Baruah offers a bold and lucid interpretation of the political and economic history of Assam from the time it became a part of British India and a leading tea-producing region in the nineteenth century. He traces the history of tensions between pan-Indianism and Assamese subnationalism since the early days of Indian nationalism. The region's insurgencies, human rights abuses by government security forces and insurgents, ethnic violence, and a steady slide toward illiberal democracy, he argues, are largely due to India's formally federal, but actually centralized governmental structure. Baruah argues that in multiethnic polities, loose federations not only make better democracies, in the era of globalization they make more economic sense as well. This challenging and accessible work addresses a pressing contemporary problem with broad relevance for the history of nationality while offering an important contribution to the study of ethnic conflict. A native of northeast India, Baruah draws on a combination of scholarly research, political engagement, and an insider's knowledge of Assamese culture and society.