Becoming Assamese: Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India

by Madhumita Sengupta

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138676071
• ISBN13: 9781138676077
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"