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The book contains the scholarly debate on the Assam movement (1979-1985). A number of thought provoking articles on the movement appeared in economics and Political Weekly in its early phase. The EPW debate essentially centered around the content of a seminal article by Amalendu Guha entitled “Little Nationalism Turned Chauvinist: Assam’s Anti-Foreigner Upsurge, 1979-80†A few articles preceding its publication had also addressed some crucial issues ...
This book Election Politics in Assam: Issues, Trends and People’s Mandate is a product of an extensive research by the Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and development, Guwahati, with a financial support from the India Council of Social Science research, new Delhi. It provides an insight into the election politics in the State of Assam taking the Lok Sabha poll of 2004 as the focal point. It covers various issues on which the lections were fought, ...
The book contains 10 articles presented in a national seminar organized by the Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and development in Collaboration with the Indian Council of Social Science research, New Delhi. The articles provide a Northeastern perspective of India’s national security and cover various current and divergent issues. It has a long introductory note of the Editor.
Fifty year agon, in October 1956, the mighty Soviet union invaded Hungary to crush a massive anti-Soviet rebellion that rocked Budapest. Twelve years later, Moscow repeated the same coercive and surgical measure in another country in Eastern Europe, Czecholovakia, a member of Warsaw treaty organization living in the Soviet sphere of influence. This book is a full-scale assessment, based on original documents and secondary source materials, of the US response to ...