India against itself: Assam and the politics of nationality/
Sanjib Baruah
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- xxiii, 257 p. ; 23 cm.
- (Critical histories) .
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.