Saikia Fragmented Memories

Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8616-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 346 Seiten

A study of identity and its connection to memory, focusing on the history of community identity formation among the Tai-Ahom in Assam.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saikia, Yasmin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xi

Introduction Locating Tai-Ahom in Assam: The Place and People 1

Part One

Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Identity: Indian, Assamese and Tai-Ahom

1. Identification in India 37

2. Colonial Origins of Ahom 77

3. The Memory of the Local: The Stories the Buranjis Tell 113

Part Two

Tai-Ahom: A Language and Culture of Emotion

4. Rationalizing a History 147

5. Performance and Politics of Tai-Ahom 177

6. There Was No Plot in the People’s Struggle 225

Conclusion The Past and Present: Connecting Memory, History and Identity 251

Epilogue 267

Notes 269

References 301

Index 319

Über Autor(innen)

Yasmin Saikia is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of In the Meadows of Gold: Telling Tales of the Swargadeos at the Crossroads of Assam.