Burden of history : Assam and the partition - unresolved issues / Udayon Misra.
2018
DS485.A88
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Title
Burden of history : Assam and the partition - unresolved issues / Udayon Misra.
Author
Misra, Udayon, 1945- author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199090914 (electronic book)
Published
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
DS485.A88
Dewey Decimal Classification
954.1620359
Summary
Deals with the years immediately preceding the Partition of India and takes up issues of land, language, immigration, and identity in Assam, where they continue to occupy public space. The effects of the Partition continue to hang as a spectre over the entire region. In Assam's case, its recent history seems to have subsumed its 'glorious past', with geography playing a crucial role in determining its present position vis-a-vis the Indian state. The author outlines the present contentious issues in the state, which seem to defy any solution and which are increasingly adding to the growing human tragedy of the region in the light of developments which occurred in the pre- and post-Partition years.
Note
Deals with the years immediately preceding the Partition of India and takes up issues of land, language, immigration, and identity in Assam, where they continue to occupy public space. The effects of the Partition continue to hang as a spectre over the entire region. In Assam's case, its recent history seems to have subsumed its 'glorious past', with geography playing a crucial role in determining its present position vis-a-vis the Indian state. The author outlines the present contentious issues in the state, which seem to defy any solution and which are increasingly adding to the growing human tragedy of the region in the light of developments which occurred in the pre- and post-Partition years.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 11, 2018).
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