Baruah, Sanjib

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.

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