Becoming Assamese: Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India

by Madhumita Sengupta

Overview

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 an

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367177195
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/25/2019
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Madhumita Sengupta is Assistant Professor of History at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. She completed her MA in Modern History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and PhD in History from the University of Calcutta. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), and has taught at Rani Birla Girls College, Kolkata. Her areas of research interests include linguistic, cultural and regional identities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in India, socio-economic and cultural aspects of British rule in India and the colonial history of Northeast India.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Acknowledgement Introduction Part I 1.The Political Economy of a Frontier 2. Languages of Identity 3. The Burden of Progress Part II 4. New Solidarities: Print, Politics and Protest 5.Intimate Histories of Assamese 6. Representing Traditions Recasting History Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index