TY - BOOK AU - Baruah, Sanjib TI - India against itself: Assam and the politics of nationality SN - 9780812234916 U1 - 320.954162 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Politics and government KW - Ethnic relations N1 - 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 ER -