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ahom
Ahom dynasty society
Ahom Rulers
Amalendu Guha
Anandaram Dhekial Phukan
Assam Valley
Assamese
Assamese Community
Assamese Identity
Assamese Language
Assamese Middle Class
Assamese Peasant
Assamese People
Assamese Youth
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Brahmanical Hindu
brahmaputra
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Colonial Administration
Colonial Assam
colonial history research
Common Language
cultural nationalism analysis
Deputy Commissioner
Dhekial Phukan
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Gunabhiram Barua
identity formation theory
language
lower
Lower Assam
middle class intelligentsia
Nineteenth Century Assam
nineteenth century Assamese identity studies
Northeast India Studies
Official Vernacular
people
rulers
South Asian studies
tantra
upper
valley
yogini
Yogini Tantra
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367177195
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explores the making of colonial Northeast India and offers a new perspective to the study of the Assamese identity in the nineteenth century as a distinctly nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon, not confined to linguistic parameters alone. It studies crucial markers of the self � history, customs, food, dress, new religious beliefs � an
Madhumita Sengupta is Assistant Professor of History at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. She completed her MA in Modern History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and PhD in History from the University of Calcutta. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), and has taught at Rani Birla Girls College, Kolkata. Her areas of research interests include linguistic, cultural and regional identities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in India, socio-economic and cultural aspects of British rule in India and the colonial history of Northeast India.
