[PDF] The People Of Assam eBook

Author : B.M. Das
Publisher : Gyan Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Anthropometry
ISBN : 9788121208390

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1.Introduction 2.Race 3. Racial Elements in Assam 4. Ongoing Processes in Assam Bibliography Index

Author : Bhuban Mohan Das
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Anthropometry
ISBN : 9788121200936

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Anthropological and ethnological study.

Author : Sipra Sen
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 9788121205726

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This is a multidisciplinary book on Anthropology and Sociology. The textual part of this book covers the description of the Assam State and ethnology of the tribes and castes. The exhaustive bibliography has almost all the comprehensive inventory research source materials of monographs, articles, dissertations, reports, proceedings etc. of pre-and post-Independence period from the year 1792 to 1996. This book is perhaps the first ever scholarly effort to enlist the major up-to-date references, without any duplication, on different aspects of tribes and castes along with the textual part of description and appendices. The introductory chapter describes the main aspects of geography, agriculture, forest, geology, historical and political administration, district-councils etc. with ethnological aspects of about sixty communities. Besides these, this book provides a basic knowledge about its twenty-three districts and descriptive ideas on many other aspects of land and people of Assam. The exhaustive bibliographical part will definitely assist the scholars to locate the documents on different aspects of Assam and its people relating to anthropology, sociology, socio-religious, socio-political and socio-economic aspects, linguistics, demography, psychological facts etc. It has several detailed maps, photographs, sketches and tables which are the attractive features of this book. The appendices of glossary of words, lists of Scheduled Tribes and Castes and Chronology of Ahom and Koch reigns are also very helpful. The Author and Subject Index makes the consultation of this book easy. This will definitely serve as a ready reckoner. This can be used also as a general guidebook for all.

Author : Yasmin Saikia
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 082238616X

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Fragmented 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-Ahom. Assamese 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.

Author : Audrey Cantlie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1000770516

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First published in 1984, The Assamese is an anthropological exploration of Assam. The many tribes living in the hill tracts of Assam early engaged the attention of anthropologists but no significant studies have been made of the people living in the Assam valley who call themselves Assamese, the distinctive features of whose culture are inseparably connected with their religious institutions. The purpose of this book is to give an account of the way of life which the Assamese people are seeking to preserve, and its chief claim to attention is that it is the very first field-study of the village foundations of social life in Assam, containing a plenitude of detailed information on local aggregates, caste divisions, modes of livelihood, devotional practices, marriage patterns, and much else. This book will be of interest to students of anthropology, ethnic studies, history and cultural studies.