J B Bhattacharjee
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The origins and development of the early states and politics technically termed by some scholars in social sciences as ‘state formations’ in pre-colonial Northeast India is considered a fascinating area for studies and research not only for the multiplicity of the autonomous socio-political entities and the ethnic and cultural diversity of the region but also for the existence of various typologies of polities. Besides the pristine indigenously ...
Lectures delivered by the author at the Dept. of History, Dibrugarh University during 10-11 December 2007.
Assam was constituted into a province by the British rulers of India to meet the colonial needs of a viable province in the northeastern part of their Indian empire. It was accomplished in stages by subjugating the erstwhile Ahom Kingdom or Assam proper and its neighbouring hitherto independent hill tribal areas in several installments and annexing those to the Bengal presidency and thereafter by separating the Assam division from Bengal (1874) and transferring ...
Is Social Science a Science? Emerges from a Brain Storming Session (BSS), on the subject, organized by the North-Eastern Regional Centre of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, involving a group of social scientists at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. The scholars from sociology, political science, History, economics, geography, anthropology, and philosophy, freely expressed themselves on the issue from the perspectives of their respective ...
Insurgency in Northeast India is expected to be useful to all those who are involved in the peace processes in Northeast India because a problem of its magnitude cannot be solved without understanding the root causes. The book brings into focus that there is nothing like a north-eastern insurgency and that there are several autonomous or isolated insurgencies, militancies and other movements in different parts and ethnic areas of the region which have created an ...
Development Strategies for Barak Valley (Assam) emerges from a Brainstorming Session on "Development Strategies for Barak Valley : Constraints and Prospects" organized by the Institute of Northeast India Studies in collaboration with the Department of Economics, Assam University, Silchar, on 29 April 2008. The objective of the discourse was to focus on the problems and prospects of economic development and, more importantly, the appropriate strategies ...