Uddipana Goswami

Conflict and Reconciliation

The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781138663930
• ISBN-10: 113866393X
• Artikelnr.: 44826825

Autorenporträt

Uddipana Goswami is Editor, Northeast Review, and is based in Guwahati, India.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps. List of Abbreviations. Glossary. Preface. Author's Note.
Acknowledgments. Introduction: Assam, Conflicts Part I 1. Conflicts Within,
Conflicts Without: Communities and Concepts 2. What is Axamiy¿:
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