Author: Anjali SarmaPublisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170992073
Category : Assam (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Among the Luminaries in Assam
Author: Anjali SarmaPublisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170992073
Category : Assam (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Indian Antiquary
Author: Nationalist Upsurge in Assam
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assam (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Contributed articles focussing on the role of Assam in the Indian freedom movement from 1857-1947.
The Indo-Aryan Languages
Author: Danesh JainPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135797110
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.
Modern Practices in North East India
Author: Lipokmar DzüvichüPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351271342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book brings together essays on North East India from across disciplines to explore new understandings of the colonial and contemporary realities of the region. Departing from the usual focus on identity and politics, it offers fresh representations from history, social anthropology, culture, literature, politics, performance and gender. Through the lens of modern practices, the essays in this volume engage with diverse issues, including state-making practices, knowledge production and its politics, history writing, colonialism, role of capital, institutions, changing locations of orality and modernity, production and reception of texts, performances and literatures, social change and memory, violence and gender relations, along with their wider historical, geographical and ideational mappings. In the process, they illustrate how the specificities of the region can become useful sites to interrogate global phenomena and processes — for instance, in what ways ideas and practices of modernity played an important role in framing the region and its people. Further, the volume underlines the complex ways in which the past came to be imagined, produced and contested in the region. With its blend of inter-disciplinary approach, analytical models and perspectives, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and general readers interested in North East India and those working on history, frontiers and borderlands, gender, cultural studies and literature.
The Indian Review
Author: G.A. NatesanBecoming Assamese
Author: Madhumita SenguptaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317197771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book explores the making of colonial Northeast India and offers a new perspective to the study of the Assamese identity in the nineteenth century as a distinctly nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon, not confined to linguistic parameters alone. It studies crucial markers of the self — history, customs, food, dress, new religious beliefs — and symbols considered desirable by the provincial middle class and the way these fitted in with the latter’s nationalist subjectivities in the face of an emphatic Bengali cultural nationalism. The author shows how colonialism was intrinsically linked to the assertion of middle class intelligentsia in the region and was instrumental in eroding the essential malleability of societal processes nurtured by the Ahom state. Rich with fresh research data, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of history, political science, area studies, and to anyone interested in understanding Northeast India.
The Penguin Book Of Indian Poets
Author: Jeet ThayilPublisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9354925103
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1247
Book Description
Jeet Thayil has compiled the definitive anthology of Indian poetry in English. This monumental undertaking, two decades in the making, brings together writers from across the world, a wealth of voices--in dialogue, in soliloquy, in rhetoric, and in play--to present an expansive, encompassing idea of what makes an 'Indian' poet. Included are lost, uncollected, or out of print poems by major poets, essays that place entire bodies of work into their precise cultural contexts, and a collection of classic black and white portraits by Madhu Kapparath. These images, taken over a period of thirty years, form an archive of breathtaking historical scope. They offer the viewer unparalleled intimacy and access to the lives of some of India's greatest poets.
Five Decades
Author: D. S. RaoPublisher: Sahitya Akademi
ISBN: 9788126020607
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
On the completion of fiftieth year of Sahitya Akademi.
Accumulation and Dispossession
Author: Asok Kumar RayPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104003487X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This book sketches a road map of privatisation, accumulation and dispossession of communal land in the tribal areas of North East India from pre-colonial times to the neo-liberal era. Spread over five chapters, this study unfolds the privatisation of communal land in the backdrop of a larger theoretical and historical canvas. It deals with the different institutional modes of privatisation, accumulation and dispossession of communal land, the changes in land use and cropping patterns, the changes in land relations and the land-based identity of the tribal community as a result. The conclusive chapter makes a broader reflection of the grand narrative of privatisation, accumulation and dispossession of communal land in North East India. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)