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Becoming Assamese: Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India

Becoming Assamese: Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India

SenGupta, Madhumita

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General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1138676071
ISBN13: 9781138676077
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: May 31 2016
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

This book explores the making of colonial Northeast India and offers a new perspective to the study of the Assamese identity in the nineteenth century as a distinctly nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon, not confined to linguistic parameters alone. It studies crucial markers of the self -- history, customs, food, dress, new religious beliefs -- and symbols considered desirable by the provincial middle class and the way these fitted in with the latter's nationalist subjectivities in the face of an emphatic Bengali cultural nationalism. The author shows how colonialism was intrinsically linked to the assertion of middle class intelligentsia in the region and was instrumental in eroding the essential malleability of societal processes nurtured by the Ahom state.

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