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... presumably in the BJP. the more civilized denizens of this country in the These reservations are being placed on record non-cow belt areas would have nothing to do, has before attempting an account and analysis of the been making headway outside its turf, or more BJP in Assam and, more generally...

... was a necessary inheritance from the colonial past. Northeast India—once part of the “frontier system” of British Imperial India 1 —acquired its postcolonial regional political structure and official name in the 1970s. Five of the eight states—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Mizoram—were part...

...Samyak Ghosh Abstract This article situates the court of the Tungkhungia kings of Brahmaputra Valley (1680–1830), in present day Assam, in the space of courtly convergence and response in eighteenth-century South Asia. It studies a particular moment in the Tungkhungia royal court (1714–44) when...

... or regional identity. What we into account for developing a theory of communal conflict. witness in Assam and Punjab today are cases in point. But It is integrally connected with the dynamics of social change more on this a little later. in the country. Socio-eeonomic changes...

... peoples, Naga nationalism was branded as 'insurgency.' This 39 was not only a premonition of the violence to come, but for of Assam to arrest the critics of the Indian government. By Naga leaders, elders and common folk...

... . Appadorai Angadipuram . Dyarchy in Practice . Madras : Longmans , 1937 . Banerjea Surendranath . A Nation in Making: Being the Reminiscences of Fifty Years of Public Life . London : Humphrey Milford , 1927 . Baruah Sanjib . India against Itself: Assam and the Politics...

... walk away. spontaneous settlement from hill regions the Ta- to More commonly, individuals have left the village to rai. He reviews theories of migration, and discusses seek wage labor in India, Assam, Sikkim...

... in the Garo foothills, bordering on the century, Susong was a backward and underdeveloped area, present Indian state of Assam. Originally a feudatory with with most of the ruling family living in Calcutta. Rent was ties to the Mughal court, Susong was a Hindu principality...

... and tea estates of Assam, and the “savage” tribes of Naga Hills, 22 separated by the physical boundary known as the Inner Line. 23 After decolonization, and confronted with new centralized nation-states in the making, customary rights to ancestral land and claims of possessing an indigenous...

... and therefore ought to be worshipped in ways similar to “Ma Ganga” or the Mother Ganges. In a previous section, Laura Bear's ethnography highlighted the vitality and productivity gained from ritual associations of Ma Ganga. However, by imposing a Hindu animistic ethos in the case of Assam, in the northeast...

...- tribes (except the scheduled tribes in the au- ary 1949). tonomous districts of Assam), as well as for 78. Indeed, at the time that some sections of Indian Christians in Madras and Bombay. The the bureaucracy were dealing with devising 79...

..., Bengali in this transformation requires an understanding of Hindi vs. Bengali, Assamese vs. Bengali, Bodo vs. Assam• the evolution of the Bengali language and its political con• ese, Bengali vs. Urdu) (Gumperz, 1968). The focus...

... framed as “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants” by their employers in a violent move of disenfranchisement. See Ghosh and Mehta, “Under the Sign.” 14. The eastern Indian state of Assam has long been the site of ethnic and religious violence over land rights and citizenship, with Bengali Muslims being...

... on the basis of free would not have been feasible in the first place. The wage labor, but unfree, migrant labor. A system of in- same observation may apply to gold mining in South dentured labor was also introduced into the Assam Africa. However, in many of the settler economies, plantations from...

... percent in Kerala, 1.94 percent in West technology . Bengal and percent in Assam (Griffin, 'I 1.17 1974: 208). THE GREEN...

... of the Bihar, who form a minority of 13 percent and are partition of Bengal, “in the same way” as the Muslim surrounded by a hostile majority all over the majority areas of Assam were being allowed to amalga- Province?. . .After full consideration, we have come mate with Eastern Bengal...

... of suburbs of Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Assam and other the Indian Talkie, “Even after their release, the pictures regions of the northeast. In East Bengal, New Theatres’ cannot be properly exploited because of the absence of films were showing in Dacca, Mymensingh, Barishal, adequate scope for their maximum...

... wal, started its present movement in the middle of Punjab is not the only state which is demanding 1982 with a set of demands. These demands are greater autonomy. There are seven other states based on the Anandpur Sahib Resolution adopted by (Assam, Tripura...

... by a 2003 amendm­ ent to the 1955 Citizenship Act establishing who is a citi­z­ en of India. The pro­ gram to imple­ment the NRC began in Assam in 2013 and has resulted in thou­sands of deten­tions and lists of mil­lio­ ns of potent­ ial nonc­ it­i­ zens. See Siddique, Inside Assam s Detention Camps. 30...