Discordant Discourse: Revisiting Assams Ethnic Issues

ABOUT THE BOOK:- This book examines the ethnic issues of one of Indian states—Assam, that has been believed to be inundated with ethnic discord. By examining three instances, we argue that an overwhelming ethnic discourse exists here that renders the imagination and expression of this region as fundamentally fragmented—ethnically . To explore the discourse, we study three recent conflicts that have been considered as ethnic conflicts—the Assam Movement (1979-1985), the United Liberation Front of Assam or ULFA (1979-present) and the Bodol and Movement (1987-present ) . Following this, we forefront the following argument that while the presence and acknowledgment of diversity cannot be negated, categorization of identities in Assam as essentially “ethnic” emerged at a specific junction—the British colonial period. The study finally proposes that in this particular context ethnic strife arise from the nation's inability to emerge from the discordant colonial ethnic discourse about the region. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Dr . Bitasta Das is Instructor-Humanities, Undergraduate Programme at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. She is a gold medallist in Cultural Studies from Tezpur University , Assam and holds Doctorate degree in Cultural Studies from Manipal University , Karnataka. Her Ph.D research was on “Unravelling Ethnic Tensions: Colonialism, Post Colonialism and the Question of Identity in Assam”. She has published four books so far on Indian culture, folk art and tribal issues and has several papers to her credit in national and international journals. At IISc she teaches a paper on Indian Folk Arts, one on Research Methodology and another on People and Nature. CONTENTS:- Acknowledgment . 7 Preface . 11 Introduction: Constituents of Ethnic Discourse . 13 1. Recounting the Assam Movement, the United Liberation Front of Assam and the Bodoland Movement . 55 2. Ethnicization of the Assam Movement, United Liberation Front of Assam and the Bodoland Movement . 137 3. Windings of the Ethnic Discourse . 163 4. Probing the Ethnic in Assam’s Ethnic Discourse . 173 Conclusion: The Discordant Discourse . 201 Annexures . 211 Bibliography . 225 Index . 243 The Title 'Discordant Discourse: Revisiting Assam’s Ethnic Issues written/authored/edited by Bitasta Das', published in the year 2019. The ISBN 9789353240615 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 252 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-