India against itself : Assam and the politics of nationality (Record no. 61802)

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ISBN 9780195658408
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Classification number 320.95416209045
Item number SAN/I
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Personal name Sanjib Baruah
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Title India against itself : Assam and the politics of nationality
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Place of publication New Delhi
Name of publisher OUP
Year of publication 2010
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Number of Pages 257p.
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Summary, etc In an era of failing states and ethnic conflict, violent challenges from dissenting groups in the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, several African countries, and India give cause for grave concern in much of the world. And it is in India where some of the most turbulent of these clashes have been taking place. One resulted in the creation of Pakistan, and militant separatist movements flourish in Kashmir, Punjab, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Assam. In India Against Itself, Sanjib Baruah focuses on the insurgency in Assam in order to explore the politics of subnationalism.<br/><br/>Baruah offers a bold and lucid interpretation of the political and economic history of Assam from the time it became a part of British India and a leading tea-producing region in the nineteenth century. He traces the history of tensions between pan-Indianism and Assamese subnationalism since the early days of Indian nationalism. The region's insurgencies, human rights abuses by government security forces and insurgents, ethnic violence, and a steady slide toward illiberal democracy, he argues, are largely due to India's formally federal, but actually centralized governmental structure. Baruah argues that in multiethnic polities, loose federations not only make better democracies, in the era of globalization they make more economic sense as well.<br/><br/>This challenging and accessible work addresses a pressing contemporary problem with broad relevance for the history of nationality while offering an important contribution to the study of ethnic conflict. A native of northeast India, Baruah draws on a combination of scholarly research, political engagement, and an insider's knowledge of Assamese culture and society.
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Topical Term India--Assam
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Topical Term Ethnic relations
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Topical Term Politics and government
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Kannur University Central Library Stack 06/09/2021 325.00 320.95416209045 SAN/I 54037 BK

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