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- catalog abstract ""According to Sanjib Baruah, loosely organized federations are not only less prone to violent conflicts, they make better democracies and, in our era of globalization, they make more economic sense as well. He illustrates the argument with an analysis of conflicts in India's northeastern province of Assam." "Baruah offers an original and lucid interpretation of the political and economic history of Assam since it became a part of British India and one of the world's leading tea-producing regions in the nineteenth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11108085.
- catalog coverage "Assam (India) Ethnic relations.".
- catalog coverage "Assam (India) Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "India Politics and government 1977-".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""According to Sanjib Baruah, loosely organized federations are not only less prone to violent conflicts, they make better democracies and, in our era of globalization, they make more economic sense as well. He illustrates the argument with an analysis of conflicts in India's northeastern province of Assam." "Baruah offers an original and lucid interpretation of the political and economic history of Assam since it became a part of British India and one of the world's leading tea-producing regions in the nineteenth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references ([231]-243) and index.".
- catalog description "Theoretical Considerations: The Limits of "Nation-Building" -- Colonial Geography as Destiny: Assam as a Province of British India -- The 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 -- "We Are Bodos, Not Assamese": Contesting a Subnational Narrative -- Conclusion: India Against Itself.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 257 p. :".
- catalog identifier "081223491X".
- catalog isPartOf "Critical histories".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog spatial "Assam (India) Ethnic relations.".
- catalog spatial "Assam (India) Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "India Politics and government 1977-".
- catalog subject "320.954/162/09045 21".
- catalog subject "DS485.A88 B355 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Theoretical Considerations: The Limits of "Nation-Building" -- Colonial Geography as Destiny: Assam as a Province of British India -- The 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 -- "We Are Bodos, Not Assamese": Contesting a Subnational Narrative -- Conclusion: India Against Itself.".
- catalog title "India against itself : Assam and the politics of nationality / Sanjib Baruah.".
- catalog type "text".