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Conflict and Reconciliation The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317559979
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS485 .C664 2014
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Subject: Diverging from reductionist studies of Northeast India and its multifarious conflicts, this book presents an exclusive and intricate, empirical and theoretical study of Assam as a conflict zone. It traces the genesis and evolution of the ethnic and nationalistic politics in the state, and explores how this gave birth to nativist and militant movements. It further discusses how the State's responses seem to have exacerbated rather than mitigated the conflict situation. The author proposes ethnic reconciliation as an effective way out of the current chaos, and finds the key in e.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction DS485.88 .384 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn887502582

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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-opting8 Resolving Issues, Transforming Conflicts, Restoring Relations; 9 Back to the Future: Tradition and Transformation; Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Diverging from reductionist studies of Northeast India and its multifarious conflicts, this book presents an exclusive and intricate, empirical and theoretical study of Assam as a conflict zone. It traces the genesis and evolution of the ethnic and nationalistic politics in the state, and explores how this gave birth to nativist and militant movements. It further discusses how the State's responses seem to have exacerbated rather than mitigated the conflict situation. The author proposes ethnic reconciliation as an effective way out of the current chaos, and finds the key in e.

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