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Conflict and Reconciliation : The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Transition in Northeastern India SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317559979
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Conflict and ReconciliationDDC classification:
  • 305.800954
LOC classification:
  • DS485.A88 .C384 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Preface -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Assam, Conflicts -- Part I -- 1 Conflicts Within, Conflicts Without: Communities and Concepts -- 2 What is Axamiyā? Understanding an Interethnic Identity -- 3 Identity, Interrupted: Nation-building and the Break with Interethnicity -- 4 Ethnic Fragmentation and Divided Communities -- 5 State Policy, Ethnicity and Conflict -- Part II -- 6 Addressing Conflicts: Militarisation and the Culture of Violence -- 7 Addressing Conflicts: Negotiating, Power Sharing, Co-opting -- 8 Resolving Issues, Transforming Conflicts, Restoring Relations -- 9 Back to the Future: Tradition and Transformation -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index.
Summary: Tracing the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of ethnic conflict in Assam in India's northeast, this book provides a rigorous and intensive analysis of the nationalist politics of the state, with implications for conflict and separatism as well as prospects for peace and reconciliation.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Preface -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Assam, Conflicts -- Part I -- 1 Conflicts Within, Conflicts Without: Communities and Concepts -- 2 What is Axamiyā? Understanding an Interethnic Identity -- 3 Identity, Interrupted: Nation-building and the Break with Interethnicity -- 4 Ethnic Fragmentation and Divided Communities -- 5 State Policy, Ethnicity and Conflict -- Part II -- 6 Addressing Conflicts: Militarisation and the Culture of Violence -- 7 Addressing Conflicts: Negotiating, Power Sharing, Co-opting -- 8 Resolving Issues, Transforming Conflicts, Restoring Relations -- 9 Back to the Future: Tradition and Transformation -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index.

Tracing the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of ethnic conflict in Assam in India's northeast, this book provides a rigorous and intensive analysis of the nationalist politics of the state, with implications for conflict and separatism as well as prospects for peace and reconciliation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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