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| assam history books: HISTORY OF ASSAM. EDWARD ALBERT. GAIT, 2024 |
| assam history books: Assam's history and its graphics Guptajit Pathak, 2008 |
| assam history books: A Comprehensive History of Assam S. L. Baruah, 1995-01-01 Illustrations: Few Maps Description: This work is the first analytical and comprehensive account of the civilization of Assam from earliest to the present times. Its object is ti acquaint the readers with the forces and factors moulding the society and culture of Assam through the ages. It analyses the salient features of Assamese civilization giving proper weightage to the contributions made by different tribes or ethnic groups of both the hills and the plains as well as by the followers of different faiths towards its growth and development. The work is divided into four parts. Part I gives a brief idea of the present state of Assam. It also discusses the source materials as well as the pre-history and the proto-history of the land. Part II deals with the ancient period beginning with the legendary kings till the dismemberment of the ancient kingdom of Pragjyotisha or Kamarupa in the close of the twelfth century AD. Part III treats the history of the medieval period from the rise of different tribal states on the ruins of the ancient kingdom till the fall of the Ahom monarchy in 1826. Part IV deals with the modern period covering the history of the British rule upto the attainment of the country's independence in 1947. It also contains a chapter dealing briefly with the events after independence. The authoress has made full use of all available sources, published and unpublished, preserved in different libraries within and outside the state. Attempt has been made to make the information up-to-date with proper notes and references and the treatment clear and precise. The work also contains a bibliography, glossary and index. |
| assam history books: History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern Frontier Leslie Shakespear, 2012-04-26 In this 1914 work, Shakespear describes the history of the remote north-eastern frontier of India and its tribes. |
| assam history books: Religion in Early Assam Rena Laisram, 2019-04-18 This volume offers a fresh approach to the existing literature on religion in Early Assam, bringing together perspectives from the fields of archaeology, religion, history and heritage. For decades, the Naraka legend has been incorporated into history without due critical attention and analysis of the historical context, while archaeological studies in religion have been largely descriptive. The sacred landscape of the erstwhile Prāgjyotiṣa and Kāmarūpa kingdoms had linkages with the history of other parts of India, and beyond. This book offers a comprehensive reconstruction of religion in Early Assam based on an exhaustive use of archaeological sources. It opens with a useful overview of the conceptual and methodological foundations of religion, archaeology and history. Heritage conservation of sacred sites such as Kāmākhyā which face the impact of rapid urbanization illustrates implications for Assam’s history and identity. |
| assam history books: The History of Assam Priyam Goswami, 2012 |
| assam history books: Frontier Cultures Manjeet Baruah, 2020-11-29 The study of Assamese literature has so far been in terms of the history of the Assamese language. This book is a history of the narratives written in Assamese language and its relation to the process of region formation. The literature dealt with ranges from pre-colonial chronicles, ballads and drama to modern genres of fiction and critical writing in Assamese language. Taking the Brahmaputra valley and Assamese literature as case studies, the author attempts to link literature, its nature and use, to processes of region formation, arguing that such a study needs to take the context of historical geography into consideration. The book views region formation in north-east India as a dialectical process, that is, the dialectic between the shared and the distinct in inter-group and community relations. It borrows an anthropological approach to study written narratives and cultures so as to locate such narratives in specific processes of region formation. |
| assam history books: Social and Economic History of Assam Rajen Saikia, 2002-10 |
| assam history books: Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826–2000 Arupjyoti Saikia, 2011-02-07 This book presents a comprehensive account of the transformation of Assam's forests and ecology from early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It locates present-day ecological conflicts in the colonial era when contest over forest, land, and resource began to take new shape. Arupjyoti Saikia delineates how forest resources in Assam were mapped and intergrated with mechant capitalism since the early nineteenth century. He shows how imperial forestry practices led to changes in traditional resource utilization patterns. The book also examines the political economy of conservation practices. It explores the question of law and conservation, role of institutions and organizations, and the changing role of the forests in imperial economy. The book argues how the making of forest policy in the postcolonial period was defind by the complexities of the political matrix. It discusses plantation, silvicultural practices, protection and regeneration of forests, and livlihood practices. The author also analyses public debates surrounding ecology and environmental changes in conservation practices after the 1980 Act. |
| assam history books: Burden of History Udayon Misra, 2017-09-25 The Partition of India left in its wake far-reaching consequences for the northeastern state of Assam. Appearing to be caught in a time warp, the region continues to grapple with questions that engaged the public mind more than seven decades ago, before and immediately after the Partition. Alarmingly, issues such as immigration, demographic change, language, and identity have not only retained their relevance but have also gained an extra edge today. In this volume, the author outlines the present contentious issues confronting the state. Explaining the roots of these disputes and how the challenge posed by Assam held serious consequences for the nation as a whole, this work examines the developments that occurred in the years preceding Independence and the Partition. These developments have etched their effect on the society, politics, and economy of Assam, along with the entire northeastern region, in an indelible manner. As the volume reveals, the burden of those momentous years still rests heavily on Assam’s contemporary political scenario. |
| assam history books: Know Your State Assam Arihant Experts, 2019-07-22 Many people might have encountered questions being asked from the place they live during their interview or might have noticed wide range of questions belonging to different places under the section of General Awareness which is also termed as Current Affairs. With the rapidly growing competition level, the need of being aware of General Knowledge is rising considerably. Arihant’s Know Your States Series of books updated with latest facts and informations of different states of India promote a huge amount of knowledge which has been helping students in an effective way since long time. The current edition of Know Your States Assam explores the complete coverage of History, Geography, Economy, Polity and Art & Culture of this North-Eastern Region which is famous in its own ways. It is incorporated with essential chapterwise theories and presents an appropriate number of MCQs to prepare for APSC and other State Level Exams. A premium book for aspirants as well as travelers, it continues to impress its readers largely. |
| assam history books: Conflict and Reconciliation Uddipana Goswami, 2014-08-07 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 relations between three communities (Axamiyā, Bodo and Koch) from Bodoland, the most violent region of Assam. She stresses upon the need to redefine ‘Axamiyā’, an issue of much discord in Assam’s ethnic politics since the modern-day formulation of the Axamiyā nation. The book will prove essential to scholars and students of peace and conflict studies, sociology, political science, and history, as also to policy-makers and those interested in Northeast India. |
| assam history books: History of Assamese Literature Birinchi Kumar Barua, 1978 |
| assam history books: Empire's Garden Jayeeta Sharma, 2011-08 A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape. |
| assam history books: India Against Itself Sanjib Baruah, 1999-06-29 This brilliant book, meticulously researched in the history of subnationalism and cultural politics in northeast India, is the best critique of general theories of agonistic democracy that I have encountered.—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
| assam history books: History of the Assam Rifles Leslie Waterfield Shakespear, 1929 |
| assam history books: Urban History of India Deepali Barua, 1994 Urbanization of Dibrugarh, a town in Assam. |
| assam history books: A Century of Protests Arupjyoti Saikia, 2015-08-12 Addressing an important gap in the historiography of modern Assam, this book traces the relatively unexplored but profound transformations in the agrarian landscape of late- and post-colonial Assam that were instrumental in the making of modern Assamese peasantry and rural politics. It discusses the changing relations between various sections of peasantry, state, landed gentry, and politics of different ideological hues — nationalist, communist and socialist — and shows how a primarily agrarian question concerning peasantry came to occupy the centre stage in the nationalist politics of the state. It will especially interest scholars of history, agrarian and peasant studies, sociology, and contemporary politics, as also those concerned with Northeast India. |
| assam history books: Studies in the History of Assam Suryya Kumar Bhuyan, 1965 |
| assam history books: Assam Travel Guide , 2011 |
| assam history books: Agrarian System of Medieval Assam Jahnabi Gogoi, 2002 |
| assam history books: The Muslim Question in Assam and Northeast India Monoj Kumar Nath, 2021-03-30 This book presents a systematic study of the transformation of the specific socio-political identity of the Muslims in Assam. It discusses the issues of Muslims under India’s ‘indigenous secularism’, Hindu nationalism and the rise of majoritarian politics; Muslim immigration into Assam after Independence; the Assam Movement and the shift of Muslims from being a vote bank to an autonomous force in the post-Partition politics of Assam; the role of Jamiat; and the divide between Assamese and the neo-Assamese. It explores the history and contemporary politics of the state to show how they shape the new context of Muslim identity in Assam, where previously an Assamese identity often prevailed over religious and linguistic identity. With the current debates on illegal immigration, the National Register of Citizens of India (NRC) and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, this book will be a timely addition to the existing literature on Muslim minority politics in Assam and northeast India. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political science, sociology, political sociology, minority studies, northeast India studies, demography and immigration studies, and development studies. It will interest those concerned with minority politics, communal politics, identity politics, migration, citizenship issues, and South Asian studies. |
| assam history books: The Unquiet River Arupjyoti Saikia, 2019-12-05 The unruly Brahmaputra has always been an agent in shaping both the landscape of its valley and the livelihoods of its inhabitants. But how much do we know of this river's rich past? Historian Arupjyoti Saikia's biography of the Brahmaputra reimagines the layered history of Assam with the unquiet river at the centre. The book combines a range of disciplinary scholarship to unravel the geological forces as well as human endeavour which have shaped the river into what it is today. Wonderfully illuminated with archival detail and interwoven with narratives and striking connections, the book allows the reader to imagine the Brahmaputra's course in history. This evocative and compelling book will be interesting reading for anyone trying to understand the past and the present of a river confronted by the twenty-first century's ambitious infrastructural designs to further re-engineer the river and its landscape. |
| assam history books: Strangers Of The Mist Sanjoy Hazarika, 2000-10-14 This book would have been completed earlier but for events that disrupted millions of lives across India, including those of journalists : the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya, by a Hindu mob on 6 December 1992 and the communal riots that followed across the country. In January 1993, the selective massacres of Muslims at Bombay and the devastating revenge bomb blasts there two months later led to extensive travelling and reporting for the New York Times. In addition, there was 'normal reporting' : the Punjab, environmental, economic and political issues such as the billion dollar scam. |
| assam history books: Śaṅkaradeva and His Times Maheswar Neog, 1965 |
| assam history books: Fragmented Memories Yasmin Saikia, 2004-11-09 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. |
| assam history books: Communities of Women in Assam Nandana Dutta, 2015-12-22 This book uses communities of women as a framework for reading women’s experience, rights and aspirations in Assam and Northeast India. It explores the varying roles played by such communities in the formation of society, the emergence of a women’s public sphere and the representation of these communities in culture. The essays in the volume study a host of women’s communities including the Mahila Samiti, Jain women’s organisations, Lekhika Sanstha, lesbian communities, religious gatherings, scientific and environmental groups, women’s collaborations through cookbooks, as well as nebulous communities of victims of persecution. They examine how women’s communities are both empowering and transformational but may paradoxically also be regressive and static. Lucid, analytical, and rich with case studies, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of gender studies, sociology, political science, history and cultural studies, particularly those interested in Northeast India. |
| assam history books: Lachit Barphukan DHRUBANANDA DAS & SUBBA RAO, 1971-04-01 King Jayadhwaja Singh of Assam was worried. The Mughal general Mir Jumla had successfully attISBN:ed one of his forts. The king's only hope was Lachit, his brave brother-in-law who was also the commander of his army. Though the strain of keeping his country together killed Jayadhwaja, Lachit Barphukan led a brilliant and brave campaign against the Mughals and saved the honour of his king and his country. Lachit's story is chronicled in Assamese texts called Buranjis. |
| assam history books: Assam After Independence Mrinal Talukdar, 2017 |
| assam history books: Planter Raj to Swaraj Amalendu Guha, 2021-02-25 This is a re-issue of Amalendu Guha's influential work on Assam and the Northeast, 30 years after its original publication, with a new introduction by the author. Guha's analysis extends from Assam in 1826, the year of the British annexation, to the post-independence conditions in 1950. The peculiar features of the region's plantation economy; the imperialism of opium cultivation; the problems of a stready influx of immigrants and the backlash of a local linguistic chauvinism; peasants' and workers' struggles; the evolution of the ryot sabhas, the Congress, trade unions and later of the Communist Party - such are the themes that have received attention in this book, alongside an analysis of legislative and administrative processes.The narrative is structured chronologically within an integrated Marxist framework of historical perspective, and is based on a wide range of primary sources. |
| assam history books: The Quest for Modern Assam: A History Arupjyoti Saikia, 2023-08-28 'A model work of historical scholarship'-Ramachandra Guha 'The most well-researched, comprehensive history of contemporary Assam ever written'-Partha Chatterjee The crucial battles of World War II fought in India's north-east-followed soon after by Independence and Partition-had a critical impact on the making of modern Assam. In the three decades following 1947, the state of Assam underwent massive political turmoil, geographical instability, and social and demographic upheaval, among others. Later, the truncated state suffered widespread unrest as various groups believed their cultural identity and political leverage were under threat. New social energies and political forces were unleashed and came to the fore. Definitive, comprehensive and unputdownable, The Quest for Modern Assam explores the interconnected layers of political, environmental, economic and cultural processes that shaped the development of Assam since the 1940s. It offers an authoritative account that sets new standards in the writing of regional political history. Not to be missed by any one keen on Assam, India, Asia or world history in the twentieth century. |
| assam history books: Science, Technology and Social Formation in Medieval Assam Sanjeeb Kakoty, 2012-07 The beginning of the Ahom dynasty in eastern Assam dates back to AD 1228. This kingdom, which was one of the longest reigning dynasties in India, continued till the beginning of nineteenth century. This book discusses the reasons behind the durability of this state. It analyses the factors that contributed both to development of Ahom and its eventual downfall through an examination of technology, production and system of governance. The author proposes a new categorisation of the Ahom state, which he calls the paik mode of production. This involves examination of the specific tools and technologies used in rice cultivation, varieties of rice cultivated, techniques of gunpowder manufacture, different kinds of guns and canons manufactured, system of guerrilla warfare and extent of civil construction. Overall the book presents a rich account of a lesser known region in India and opens up a new area of historical examination. The book will interest graduate students and academic researchers of South Asian History, especially with a focus on northeastern part of India. General readers interested in the history of Assam will also find this book useful. |
| assam history books: Assam Year Book, 2013 Śāntanu Kauśika Baruwā, 2012 |
| assam history books: The Birds of Assam Anwaruddin Choudhury, 2000 |
| assam history books: Early British Relations with Assam , 1933* |
| assam history books: History Of Assam Gait, S.E., 2009-01-01 |
| assam history books: Looking Back Into the Future M. S. Prabhakara, 2012 Chiefly with reference to Assam. |
| assam history books: In the Meadows of Gold Yasmin Saikia, 1997 On the history of Assam, from the earliest time to the early nineteenth century. |
| assam history books: Assamese Alphabets Picture Book Jagat Saikia, 2021-04-15 Assamese Alphabets Picture Book is designed as a fun book to introduce young readers to the Assamese language.It contains fun pictures, pronunciation guide in Assamese and English for Beginners to ease into their learning process.This book is made like a flipbook for easy reading on your reading devices and contains the following segments-1. Assamese Alphabets (Vowels and Consonants) অসমীয়া স্বৰবৰ্ণ ব্যঞ্জনবৰ্ণ) (অ আ ক খ গ ঘ) 2. Pronunciation of Assamese Alphabets3. Assamese Vowels with Pictures and Pronunciations4. Assamese Consonants with Pictures and Pronunciations5. Learn Counting of Assamese Numbers (0-10) with Pronunciations in English6. BONUS: We have included a segment on The Solar System, the name of the planets.......and lot more!Although intended for native Assamese speaking young readers it can also be used by language enthusiasts who are keen to learn more about other languages! Currently, there are no good resources available as an eBook and we have tried to fill that gap and make learning the language more accessible and fun!About Assamese language: Assamese (অসমীয়া) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the northeast Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language and spoken by over 14 million speakers worldwide. |
| assam history books: Annals of the Delhi Badshahate Suryya Kumar Bhuyan, 2025 |
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Aug 21, 2016 · Assam was first separated from Bengal during the year 1874. It was then known as the Assam Chief Commissionership. In 1905, it was established as a part of the new province of …
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Jan 17, 2016 · Black Magic is termed to show the negativity of its use. It is not used to cure anything. Not just in Assam, there are a lot of places around the world where it is still practised as …
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Mar 13, 2025 · Assam: 1985: Home to the world’s largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses. Cultural: Manas Wildlife Sanctuary: Assam: 1985: Biodiversity hotspot with tigers, elephants, and …
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Mar 14, 2017 · Assam is one of the eight states in the Northeastern part of India. It is comprised mostly of the valleys of Brahmaputra and Barak. Assam and the rest of the Northeastern states …
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Nov 20, 2023 · Eldest of all the seven sisters of North east (largest states) Arunachal Pradesh shares borders with Bhutan, China and Myanmar.
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Feb 12, 2025 · Ladakh is one of the most breathtaking travel destinations in India, famous for its rugged mountains, pristine lakes, and high-altitude passes. Whether you're a biker, a road trip …
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Jul 20, 2015 · There has been recent cases of violence in Assam. However, these cases of violence are not towards foreign tourists or even Indian tourists. For instance, explosions in the region of …
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Jan 24, 2016 · In Assam: Angling Association, Tejpur . In Maharashtra: Fish Association of Powai Lake, Mumbai Tata Hydroelectric Works, Lonavla. In Delhi: Assistant Warden of Fisheries, Delhi …
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