ULFA: The Mirage of Dawn

by Rajeev Bhattacharyya

Overview

This is the untold story of the outlawed separatist outfit, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), from its inception in the early 1980s in the backdrop of the historic Assam Movement, to the present when a peace process is on between a faction led by its chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa and the government. The account delves into all major episodes, delineates their causes and effects and debunks interpretations about the movement that have gained currency over the years. During its heyday, ULFA blazed a trail to guerrilla training centres along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, established a string of camps in Bhutan and Myanmar and hideouts in Bangladesh where it received regular consignments of weapons from China.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789356993082
Publisher:	HarperCollins India
Publication date:	09/10/2023
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rajeev Bhattacharyya is the author of Lens and the Guerrilla: Insurgency in India's Northeast, the first pictorial book on insurgency in India. He is a freelance journalist based in Guwahati and had earlier worked for The Times of India, The Telegraph, The Indian Express and Times Now. In 2004, he was selected for the Chevening Fellowship in the UK where he studied the peace process between the British government and the Irish Republican Army.