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The work is on the society, polity and economy of medieval and early colonial Assam. It examines what colonisation meant for the Assamese people in terms of economy and culture: its compromises with feudal elements and its adverse consequences for the region. It provides insights into the history of the region, taking cognisance of the material and mental culture, demography, ideology and other factors. It deals with themes like peculiarities of Assamese ...
This is a re-issue of Amalendu Guha’s influential work on Assam and the North-east, thirty years after its original publication, with a new Introduction by the author. Guha’s analysis extends from Assam in 1826, the year of the British annexation, to the post-independence conditions in 1950. the peculiar features of the region’s plantation economy; the imperialism of opium cultivation; the problems of a steady influx of immigrants and the backlash of a ...
The third millennium and the twenty-first century started with the perspectives of dialogues between and among civilizations, cultures and values, for understanding each other better, for expressing to and impressing from each other and for learning from and exchanging experiences to each other. It took two months of hard scientific work to transform this thought into reality, to write this book. This book had been either mixed or presented in very imprecise way.