Arupjyoti Saikia

Gebundenes Buch

The Quest for Modern Assam: A History

1942-2000

Beschreibung

Definitive, comprehensive and unputdownable, The Quest for Modern Assam explores the interconnected layers of political, environmental, economic and cultural processes that shaped the development of Assam since the 1940s.

Autor

Arupjyoti Saikia is a professor of history at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He held the Agrarian Studies Programme Fellowship at Yale University and visiting fellow positions at Cambridge University and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Saikia is the author of Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826-2000 (OUP, 2011), A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900 (Rutledge, 2014) and The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra (OUP, 2019). His A Century of Protests won the Srikant Dutt book prize awarded by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi in 2015. The Unquiet River was short-listed for Kamala Devi Chattopadhayay Book Award in 2020 and long listed for Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize in 2020 and got 'Honorable Mention' for Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize in 2021 given by the Association of Asian Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House India
• Seitenzahl: 896
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 168mm x 76mm
• Gewicht: 1220g
• ISBN-13: 9780670095704
• ISBN-10: 0670095702
• Artikelnr.: 68736118