Yasmin Saikia

Fragmented Memories

Struggling to Be Tai-Ahom in India

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of identity and its connection to memory, focusing on the history of community identity formation among the Tai-Ahom in Assam.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2004
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334255
• ISBN-10: 0822334259
• Artikelnr.: 21929793

Autorenporträt

Yasmin Saikia is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of In the Meadows of Gold: Telling Tales of the Swargadeos at the Crossroads of Assam.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
Introduction Locating Tai-Ahom in Assam: The Place and People 1
Part One
Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Identity: Indian, Assamese and
Tai-Ahom
1. Identification in India 37
2. Colonial Origins of Ahom 77
3. The Memory of the Local: The Stories the Buranjis Tell 113
Part Two
Tai-Ahom: A Language and Culture of Emotion
4. Rationalizing a History 147
5. Performance and Politics of Tai-Ahom 177
6. There Was No Plot in the People’s Struggle 225
Conclusion The Past and Present: Connecting Memory, History and Identity
251
Epilogue 267
Notes 269
References 301
Index 319