Becoming Assamese: Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India

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 ? an

• | Author: Madhumita Sengupta
• | Publisher: Routledge India
• | Publication Date: Apr 25, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 290 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367177196
• | ISBN-13: 9780367177195