ISBN: 9780822334255

ISBN-13: 9780822334255, 978-0822334255. She shows how Tai-Ahom identity is practiced in Assam and also in Thailand. Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India. Publisher: Duke University Press, U… Meer...

ISBN-13: 9780822334255, 978-0822334255. She shows how Tai-Ahom identity is practiced in Assam and also in Thailand. Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India. Publisher: Duke University Press, United States. Fragmented Memories Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days).Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in IndiaAuthor(s): Yasmin SaikiaFormat: HardbackPublisher: Duke University Press, United StatesImprint: Duke University PressISBN-13: 9780822334255, 978-0822334255SynopsisFragmented Memories is a beautifully rendered exploration of how, during the 1990s, socially and economically marginalized people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam sought to produce a past on which to base a distinctive contemporary identity recognized within late-twentieth-century India. Yasmin Saikia describes how groups of Assamese identified themselves as Tai-Ahom-a people with a glorious past stretching back to the invasion of what is now Assam by Ahom warriors in the thirteenth century. In her account of the 1990s Tai-Ahom identity movement, Saikia considers the problem of competing identities in India, the significance of place and culture, and the outcome of the memory-building project of the Tai-[url] herself, Saikia lived in several different Tai-Ahom villages between 1994 and 1996. She spoke with political activists, intellectuals, militant leaders, shamans, and students and observed and participated in Tai-Ahom religious, social, and political events. She read Tai-Ahom sacred texts and did archival research-looking at colonial documents and government reports-in Calcutta, New Delhi, and London. In Fragmented Memories, Saikia reveals the different narratives relating to the Tai-Ahom as told by the postcolonial Indian government, British colonists, and various texts reaching back to the thirteenth century. She shows how Tai-Ahom identity is practiced in Assam and also in Thailand. Revealing how the "dead" history of Tai-Ahom has been transformed into living memory to demand rights of citizenship, Fragmented Memories is a landmark history told from the periphery of the Indian nation., Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Book Title: Fragmented Memories, EAN: 9780822334255, Publication Year: 2004, Type: Textbook, Format: Hardcover, Language: English, Publication Name: Fragmented Memories: Struggling to Be Tai-Ahom in India, Subject: History, Number of Pages: 352 Pages, Duke University Press<

2004, ISBN: 9780822334255

Duke University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 352 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-11-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Anthropologie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Lexika, Hand- & Jahrbüc… Meer...

Duke University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 352 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-11-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Anthropologie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Lexika, Hand- & Jahrbücher, Schule & Lernen, Naturwissenschaften & Technik, Asien, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Indien, Geschichte allgemein, Duke University Press, 2004<

2004, ISBN: 0822334259

[EAN: 9780822334255], Neubuch, [PU: Duke Univ Pr], new title edition. 352 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock., Books