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100 _aBaruah, Sanjib
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245 0 _aIndia against itself: Assam and the politics of nationality/
_cSanjib Baruah
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2008.
300 _axxiii, 257 p. ;
_c23 cm.
440 _a(Critical histories)
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505 _aTheoretical 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.
650 _aPolitics and government
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650 _aEthnic relations
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942 _cWB16
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