Conflict and reconciliation : the politics of ethnicity in Assam / Uddipana Goswami.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goswami, Uddipana, author.

Series:

Transition in Northeastern India.

Transition in Northeastern India

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic conflict--India--Assam.

Ethnic conflict.

Conflict management--India--Assam.

Conflict management.

Reconciliation.

Assam (India)--Ethnic relations.

Assam (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Diverging from reductionist studies of Northeast India and its multifarious conflicts, this book presents an exclusive and intricate, empirical and theoretical study of Assam as a conflict zone. It traces the genesis and evolution of the ethnic and nationalistic politics in the state, and explores how this gave birth to nativist and militant movements. It further discusses how the State's responses seem to have exacerbated rather than mitigated the conflict situation. The author proposes ethnic reconciliation as an effective way out of the current chaos, and finds the key in examining the rela

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Preface; Author's Note; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Assam, Conflicts; Part I; 1 Conflicts Within, Conflicts Without: Communities and Concepts; 2 What is Axamiyā? Understanding an Interethnic Identity; 3 Identity, Interrupted: Nation-building and the Break with Interethnicity; 4 Ethnic Fragmentation and Divided Communities; 5 State Policy, Ethnicity and Conflict; Part II; 6 Addressing Conflicts: Militarisation and the Culture of Violence

7 Addressing Conflicts: Negotiating, Power Sharing, Co-opting8 Resolving Issues, Transforming Conflicts, Restoring Relations; 9 Back to the Future: Tradition and Transformation; Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-73410-9

1-317-55997-5

9781315734101

OCLC:

887502582