Saikia, Yasmin.

Fragmented memories : struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India / Yasmin Saikia. - Hyderabad : Permanent Black, 2004. - xviii, 327 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index.

Identification in India -- Colonial origins of Ahom -- The memory of the local : the stories the Buranjis tell -- Rationalizing a history -- Performance and politics of Tai-Ahom -- There was no plot in the people's struggle.

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Ahoms (Indic people)--Ethnic identity.


Assam (India)--Ethnic relations.

DS432.A39 / S25 2004

954.16200495919 SAI