Conflict and Reconciliation : The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Transition in Northeastern India Series .
- Transition in Northeastern India Series .
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.