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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 255–256.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Christophe Jaffrelot India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality . By Sanjib Baruah . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1999 . xxiii, 257 pp. $36.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 255...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Iftekhar Iqbal Abstract The article examines the spatial turn in the contestations between the Indian nation and the British empire, as manifested in the creation and annulment of a new province at the turn of the twentieth century. The province, Eastern Bengal and Assam, was a culmination...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (1): 33–60.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Yasmin Saikia Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 List of References Albums and Scrapbooks of Oscar Mallite, Bailey, and Carter. Assam file, album 10. Oriental and India Office Collections. British Library, London. Arjun Appadurai , ed. 2001 . Globalization...
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in The Space between Nation and Empire: The Making and Unmaking of Eastern Bengal and Assam Province, 1905–1911
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2015
Figure 1. The Eastern Bengal and Assam Province (Bradley-Birt 1906 , 342).
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in Mapping a Colonial Borderland: Objectifying the Geo-Body of India's Northeast
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2011
Figure 2. Map of British Assam in 1931 (adapted from C. S. Mullan, Census of India 1931, Vol. III, Part I—Report, Shillong, 1932 ).
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Community, Authenticity, and Autonomy: Insurgence and Institutional Development in India's Northeast
Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 345–370.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Jyotirindra Dasgupta Abstract Reports from india's northeastern states—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura—rarely deal with the positive aspects of their institutional development processes. The national media mainly concentrates on the disquieting stories...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 293–315.
Published: 01 May 2021
... 1905 in Bengal and Assam .” Modern Asian Studies 46 ( 3 ): 483 – 525 . Mansergh , Nicholas , and Ernest Lumby , eds. 1977 . The Transfer of Power 1942–7: Volume 7: The Cabinet Mission, 23 March – 29 June 1946 . London : HMSO . Maule , Robert B . 2002 . “ British Policy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 141–170.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Figure 2. Map of British Assam in 1931 (adapted from C. S. Mullan, Census of India 1931, Vol. III, Part I—Report, Shillong, 1932 ). ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 277–279.
Published: 01 February 2007
... is a sensitive work of historical anthropology that takes as its subject the small Ahom community living in Assam in northeastern India. Here, she analyses “Tai” and “Ahom” as “invented” categories emerging from a combination of colonial power/knowledge and local anxieties, finally coalescing into a bid...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (4): 491–492.
Published: 01 August 1960
... been indifferently preserved. The contents are arranged according to the tribal distributions in this area, after the general accounts of "the Frontier of Assam": the Nagas, the Miris, the Daflas, the Apa Tanis, the Abors, the Mishmis, the Khamptis, the Singphos, and the Akas, with a historical prelude...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 526–527.
Published: 01 May 2004
... Tradition of Sikhism prevailing in Punjab. The second chapter is devoted to the study of Assamese literature. The presence of about ve hundred Sikh soldiers in Assam goes back to the late eighteenth century when there was a revolt in the Ahom kingdom, followed by a Burmese invasion and the annexation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 253–255.
Published: 01 February 2001
... Travancore with other major plantation regions of South Asia (i.e., Assam). BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 255 All in all, the book is packed with information on many significant aspects of South Asian political economy, agriculture, labor, caste, colonialism, resistance, etc. Scholars and generalists of South Asia...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (2): 299–308.
Published: 01 February 1972
... settlement of the Kingdon-Ward escapade which otherwise might have tended to prejudice. …” Gould's report on “British Mission to Lhasa, 1935,” in IOR , L/P&S/12/36/12. 22
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, “ The Assam Himalaya: Travels in Balipara ,” JRCAS , XXV , 4 , October, 1938 , 610 –19...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 792–794.
Published: 01 August 1984
... multi-ethnic country. Three chapters introduce the subject in some depth and provide a workable conceptual and theoretical approach. These are followed by separate case-study chapters on Bombay, Andhra Pradesh, and Assam, selected because of their national prominence, lengthy history, and the dimensions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 524–526.
Published: 01 May 2004
... with the Great Tradition of Sikhism prevailing in Punjab. The second chapter is devoted to the study of Assamese literature. The presence of about ve hundred Sikh soldiers in Assam goes back to the late eighteenth century when there was a revolt in the Ahom kingdom, followed by a Burmese invasion...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 1 (4): 378–386.
Published: 01 August 1942
...John L. Christian Abstract Perhaps no other area of comparable size presents such geographical, racial, climatic, political, linguistic and economic complexities as are found in Southeast Asia. This region may be delimited roughly as a parallelogram extending southeastward from the Burma-Assam...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (3): 421–432.
Published: 01 May 1967
...Edward van Roy Abstract A venerable occupation in North Thailand is the production of miang , a delicacy consumed as a snack or dessert by local people and by those of neighboring regions ranging from Assam to Tonkin and north through Yunnan. The product is prepared from tea leaves fermented...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 26 (1): 37–47.
Published: 01 November 1966
... General Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. , London , 1900 , pp. 16 ff . 33 Bengal Hurkaru , July 21 and September 10, 1847. 34 Brame, pp. 17 ff. and 97. 35 Guildhall ms. 9925, Assam Co., Calcutta Minute Book, I, 9. 36
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, A History of the Assam...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (2): 415–417.
Published: 01 February 1981
... and Biharis into Assam; the encounters between tribals and migrants in Chota Nagpur, Bihar; and the Telengana movement within Andhra Pradesh. In addition, several other examples of anti-migrant nativist political activity are noted, including the well-publicized activities of the Shiv Sena in Bombay...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 636–638.
Published: 01 August 2006
... in this volume in order to make them available in India (p. ix). There are two pathways of political thought and scholarship that Baruah negotiates in the essays. At one level, he is a scholar of the local history and culture of Assam, and at another level, an activist and political thinker of the Northeast...
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