India against itself: Assam and the politics of nationality
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2012-12-12
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Theoretical considerations: The limits of nation-building, Colonial geography as destiny: Assam as a province of British India, Making of a land frontier: Assam and its immigrants, Cultural politics of language, subnationalism, and pan-Indianism, Contested identity, culture wars and the breakup of Colonial Assam, Protest against immigration, ethnic rifts and Assam's crisis of governability, Militant subnationalism, human rights and the chasm with pan-Indianism