Uddipana Goswami

Conflict and Reconciliation

The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam

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Produktbeschreibung

Diverging from reductionist studies of Northeast India and its multifarious conflicts, this book presents an exclusive and intricate, empirical and theoretical study of Assam as a conflict zone. It traces the genesis and evolution of the ethnic and nationalistic politics in the state, and explores how this gave birth to nativist and militant movements. It further discusses how the State's responses seem to have exacerbated rather than mitigated the conflict situation. The author proposes ethnic reconciliation as an effective way out of the current chaos, and finds the key in examining the relations between three communities (Axamiy¿, Bodo and Koch) from Bodoland, the most violent region of Assam. She stresses upon the need to redefine 'Axamiy¿', an issue of much discord in Assam's ethnic politics since the modern-day formulation of the Axamiy¿ nation. The book will prove essential to scholars and students of peace and conflict studies, sociology, political science, and history, as also to policy-makers and those interested in Northeast India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9781138663930
• ISBN-10: 113866393X
• Artikelnr.: 44826825

Autorenporträt

Uddipana Goswami is Editor, Northeast Review, and is based in Guwahati, India.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps. List of Abbreviations. Glossary. Preface. Author's Note.
Acknowledgments. Introduction: Assam, Conflicts Part I 1. Conflicts Within,
Conflicts Without: Communities and Concepts 2. What is Axamiy¿:
Understanding an Interethnic Identity 3. Identity, Interrupted:
Nation-Building and the Break with Interethnicity 4. Ethnic Fragmentation
and Divided Communities 5. State Policy, Ethnicity and Conflict Part II 6.
Addressing Conflicts: Militarisation and the Culture of Violence 7.
Addressing Conflicts: Negotiating, Power Sharing, Co-Opting 8. Resolving
Issues, Transforming Conflicts, Restoring Relations 9. Back to the Future:
Tradition and Transformation. Bibliography. About the Author. Index