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Fragmented memories : struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India / Yasmin Saikia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saikia, Yasmin.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ahoms (Indic people)--Ethnic identity.
- Ahoms (Indic people).
- Assam (India)--Ethnic relations.
- Assam (India).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A study of identity and its connection to memory, focusing on the history of community identity formation among the Tai-Ahom in Assam.
- Contents:
- Identification in India
- Colonial origins of Ahom
- The memory of the local : the stories the Buranjis tell
- Rationalizing a history
- Performance and politics of Tai-Ahom
- There was no plot in the people's struggle.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822386162
- 082238616X
- OCLC:
- 220950976
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