...Sanjib Baruah The Assamese . By Audrey Cantlie . London : Curzon Press , 1984 . (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Centre of South Asian Studies: London Studies on South Asia, no. 3.) xiii, 322 pp. References, Index. $27. Copyright © Association for Asian...

... conquest and the first import of Bengali labor in the tea plantations and the rise of the Bodo movement, which claims to represent the real autochthonous people. But the book focuses on the ethnic Assamese movement. In the "theoretical considerations" of chapter 1, the author defines the Assamese movement...

... of the Indian Constitution deals with rules and regulations that determine who belongs to the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes categories. The R E L I G I O N , N O S T A L G I A , A N D M E M O R Y 35 mately six hundred thousand of the fourteen million Assamese-speaking people claim to be Tai-Ahom.3...

... 1991 1991 A. With Low Tribe % 1. Assam 2. Manipur 3. Tripura 22.4 1.8 2.7 (a) 2.65 284 Assamese Hindu (71%) 0.22 82 Manipuri Hindu (60%) 0.33 262 Bengali Hindu (89%) 13 34 31 B. High Tribe % 4. Arunachal Pradesh 5. Meghalaya 6. Mizoram 7. Nagaland 0.86 1.8 0.69 1.2 (b) (c) 0.10 10 Various/Local Various...

... but very informative history of Assam over the last one hundred years. It covers the British conquest and the first import of Bengali labor in the tea plantations and the rise of the Bodo movement, which claims to represent the real autochthonous people. But the book focuses on the ethnic Assamese movement...

... (1845) and the partition of India (1947). Considerable credit goes to the author for mastering three languages, Assamese, Bengali, and Oriya, to produce this work. The book is divided into six chapters, and the author describes the main purpose of his enquiry as follows: The diversity in Sikh...

... between the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845) and the partition of India (1947). Considerable credit goes to the author for mastering three languages, Assamese, Bengali, and Oriya, to produce this work. The book is divided into six chapters, and the author describes the main purpose of his enquiry as follows...

... "immigrant" and "indigenous" communities alike tofinda political settlement that would have put the immigration controversy behind once for all. (p. 204) These arguments are questionable from two points of view. First, it is as if Baruah asked for the Assamese what he is not prepared to grant other groups...

.... CLARK University of California, Berkeley The Assamese. By AUDREY CANTLIE. London: Curzon Press, 1984. (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Centre of South Asian Studies: London Studies on South Asia, no. 3.) xiii, 322 pp. References, Index. $27. Students of South Asia...

... for legitimacy within late twentieth-century politics of identity. From the mid-nineteenth century, Assamese intellectuals and British officials transmuted local chronicles into printed knowledge, disseminating widely their narrative of the Ahom, the warrior followers of the hero Sukapha. He and his...

... Congress lost power in Andhra for the first time since independence. Political gains to the Congress government as a result of preferential policies to the majority Assamese population are described as "ambiguous" (p. 120). Elections have continued to return the Congress Party to a majority position...

... was born in use of history in the literatures of India's sev- East Bengal. On p. x, he gives 1936 as the publi- eral major languages: Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, cation date for another of Bandopadhyaya's nov- Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, els, Putul nicer itikathd; his appended bibliogra- Telugu...

... states in the early 1980s when Indira Gandhi refused to concede the Assam Gana Parishad (AGP) the right to represent the Assamese community. By contrast, Rajiv Gandhi's willingness to sign the Assam Accord in 1985 helped to revitalize political institutions and restore political order. Although...

... differentiated identities, representations, and collective memories that foster particular courses of political action. Rakhee Kalita's chapter situates the Assamese “terrorist” in contemporary Assamese literature, unpacking the complex and contradictory place of insurgents among the peoples they claim...

...-sponsored migration, refugees, “illegal” immigrants, and outsiders, from the period of colonial rule to the most recent times, that have beset Assam. From the perspective of the indigenous Assamese, it would seem their interests were invariably displaced to first accommodate East Bengali agriculturalists...

... similar to those of Assamese subnationalist groups like ULFA, which resist the oppression flowing from the centralizing, nationalist vision of the union government, while simultaneously creating resentment among marginalized groups in this state, such as the Bodos (who view the exclusionary...

... is the subject of Myron Weiner's brilliant study of nativist movements in India. The question of "Indianness" versus being a Gujerati, a Bengali, an Assamese, let alone a tribal member from Chota Nagpur, has always been one of the basic issues of Indian politics. Sons of the Soil (a title that may have been...

... in the other literatures. As far as one can judge from these articles, some regional writing contains more rebellious and critical attitudes e.g., Urdu and Sikh literature. Others e.g., Assamese and Tamil come out as more accepting and capitulating. History has been expressed in almost all the genres...

... ( London , 1910 ) ; Catalogue of the Marathi and Gujarati Books ( London , 1892 ) , Catalogue of Assamese and Oriya Books ( London , 1890 ) ; Catalogue of Tamil Books ( London , 1909 ) , Catalogue of the Telegu Books ( London , 1912 ). 18 Statistics and subject categories...

... catalogues of the books in Sanskrit (4 vols.) and in Persian. There are older catalogues of books in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Oriya, Panjabi, Sindhi, and Urdu; a revised catalogue of the Urdu books, and catalogues of the Hindi books, the Tamil books, and the European periodical...