Download or read book Politics in the Brahmaputra Valley Since the Assam Accord written by Bijan Kumar Kunda and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burden of History written by Udayon Misra and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Partition of India left in its wake far-reaching consequences for the northeastern state of Assam. Appearing to be caught in a time warp, the region continues to grapple with questions that engaged the public mind more than seven decades ago, before and immediately after the Partition. Alarmingly, issues such as immigration, demographic change, language, and identity have not only retained their relevance but have also gained an extra edge today. In this volume, the author outlines the present contentious issues confronting the state. Explaining the roots of these disputes and how the challenge posed by Assam held serious consequences for the nation as a whole, this work examines the developments that occurred in the years preceding Independence and the Partition. These developments have etched their effect on the society, politics, and economy of Assam, along with the entire northeastern region, in an indelible manner. As the volume reveals, the burden of those momentous years still rests heavily on Assam’s contemporary political scenario.
Download or read book The Muslim Question in Assam and Northeast India written by Monoj Kumar Nath and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a systematic study of the transformation of the specific socio-political identity of the Muslims in Assam. It discusses the issues of Muslims under India’s ‘indigenous secularism’, Hindu nationalism and the rise of majoritarian politics; Muslim immigration into Assam after Independence; the Assam Movement and the shift of Muslims from being a vote bank to an autonomous force in the post-Partition politics of Assam; the role of Jamiat; and the divide between Assamese and the neo-Assamese. It explores the history and contemporary politics of the state to show how they shape the new context of Muslim identity in Assam, where previously an Assamese identity often prevailed over religious and linguistic identity. With the current debates on illegal immigration, the National Register of Citizens of India (NRC) and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, this book will be a timely addition to the existing literature on Muslim minority politics in Assam and northeast India. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political science, sociology, political sociology, minority studies, northeast India studies, demography and immigration studies, and development studies. It will interest those concerned with minority politics, communal politics, identity politics, migration, citizenship issues, and South Asian studies.
Download or read book India Against Itself written by Sanjib Baruah and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-06-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of failing states and ethnic conflict, violent challenges from dissenting groups in the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, several African countries, and India give cause for grave concern in much of the world. And it is in India where some of the most turbulent of these clashes have been taking place. One resulted in the creation of Pakistan, and militant separatist movements flourish in Kashmir, Punjab, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Assam. In India Against Itself, Sanjib Baruah focuses on the insurgency in Assam in order to explore the politics of subnationalism. Baruah offers a bold and lucid interpretation of the political and economic history of Assam from the time it became a part of British India and a leading tea-producing region in the nineteenth century. He traces the history of tensions between pan-Indianism and Assamese subnationalism since the early days of Indian nationalism. The region's insurgencies, human rights abuses by government security forces and insurgents, ethnic violence, and a steady slide toward illiberal democracy, he argues, are largely due to India's formally federal, but actually centralized governmental structure. Baruah argues that in multiethnic polities, loose federations not only make better democracies, in the era of globalization they make more economic sense as well. This challenging and accessible work addresses a pressing contemporary problem with broad relevance for the history of nationality while offering an important contribution to the study of ethnic conflict. A native of northeast India, Baruah draws on a combination of scholarly research, political engagement, and an insider's knowledge of Assamese culture and society.
Download or read book Assam written by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Assam Accord, which sought to end a six-year-long agitation against illegal immigrants in Assam, was signed between members of the All Assam Students Union (AASU), and state and central governments just a few hours before Rajiv Gandhi was to deliver the Independence Day address in 1985. Immediately afterwards, the student leaders were catapulted from their hostel rooms into the corridors of power. Their party, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), was voted to power the same year, with Prafulla Kumar Mahanta becoming the youngest ever chief minister of an Indian state. Key clauses of the Assam Accord remained unimplemented during Mahanta's often controversial tenures (1985-1990, 1996-2001), and through three terms of Congress rule, which ended with the BJP's victory in the state in 2016. Central to the Accord was deportation of those who could not prove their roots in India prior to 24 March 1971. In 2015, the process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC) based on the 1971 cut-off of the Accord began. The first list was released in December 2017, and did not include 14 million names. Assam: The Accord, The Discord looks at the making of the Assam Accord and its long shadow on the state, through political gamesmanship between principle players, periods of ULFA and Bodo militancies, and right-wing propaganda that has split the state along communal lines.
Download or read book Assam Politics of Migration Quest for Identity written by Manju Singh and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muslims in Assam Politics written by Makhanlal Kar and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1997 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Northeast India written by Jelle J. P. Wouters and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India by discussing its life-forms – human and not – languages, landscapes, and lifeways in all its diversity and difference. The companion contains authoritative entries from leading specialists from and on the region and offers clear, concise, and illuminating explanations of key themes and ideas. A hands-on, practical, and comprehensive guide to Northeast India, this companion fills a significant gap in the literature and will be an invaluable teaching, learning, and research resource for scholars and students of Northeast India Studies, South Asian and Southeast Asian societies, culture, politics, humanities, and the social sciences in general.
Download or read book Electoral Dynamics in the States of India written by Sandeep Shastri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This empirically rich volume presents a holistic picture of the electoral process in Indian states and the return of the BJP to power. Drawing on the 2019 elections, it presents ground-level data to understand various aspects of elections: the nature of campaigning, caste, class and identity politics, electoral issues, poll strategies of different parties in the fray, electoral issues, electoral verdicts, the contestants, the leadership factor, the formation of government, among other empirical details. The essays underline the determinants of electoral behaviour by looking into the correlation between the background variables of voters and their voting choices. The essays also compare and contrast the 2019 election verdicts from the earlier elections held in the state under study. A long view of Indian state politics, this book will be essential reference for scholars and researchers of politics, especially political processes, and South Asian studies.
Download or read book Population and the Political Imagination written by R.B. Bhagat and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies population as a central issue of polity and examines its links to ideas of state and citizenship. It explores the relationship between the state, citizenship and polity by reexamining processes related to census enumeration, population and citizen registers, and the politics of classificatory governmentality. Religion, ethnicity, caste and political class play a key role in determining community identities and the relationship between an individual and the state. Contextualizing the arguments and controversies around the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (CAA 2019) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the book examines the processes of inclusion or exclusion of minorities and migrants as citizens in India. It focusses on the classification of irregular and refugee migration since independence in India, especially in the state of Assam. The book highlights how political imagination, as a theoretical framework, shapes the processes and strategies for enumeration and classification and thereby the idea of citizenship. Underlining the relationship between instruments of government, political mobilization and the resurgence of communal polarization, it also offers suggestions for alternative constructions of citizenship and an inclusive state. This book will be useful for students and researchers of population studies, population geography, migration studies, sociology, political science, social anthropology, law and journalism. It will also be of interest to policy makers, journalists, as well as NGOs and CSOs.
Download or read book Autonomy and Democratic Governance in Northeast India written by M. Amarjeet Singh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the various forms of ethnic autonomy envisioned within and outside the purview of the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. It explores the role of the British Indian administration and the Constituent Assembly of India in the introduction and inclusion of the schedule and the special provisions granted under it. Drawing on case studies from the states of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, and Sikkim in Northeast India and Darjeeling in West Bengal, it examines whether the practice of granting autonomy has been able to fulfil the political aspirations of the ethnic communities and how far autonomy settles or eases conflict. It also discusses sub-state nationalism and if it can be accommodated within autonomy, and studies the views of the central government and state governments towards such autonomy. An important contribution towards understanding India’s federal structure, the volume will be indispensable to students and researchers of politics, democracy, Indian Constitution, law, self-governance, political theory and South Asian studies.
Download or read book The Brahmaputra Basin Water Resources written by V.P. Singh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brahmaputra River represents nearly 30% of India's water resources potential and 41% of its total hydropower. No sustainable future for this underdeveloped region can occur without a plan combining social, political, economic, cultural, and legal considerations with scientific paradigms. This book pools the talent, knowledge and experience of a wide range of water resource professionals to provide an exhaustive study of the Brahmaputra River basin, present and future.
Download or read book Political Development of the North East written by B. C. Bhuyan and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book You Do Not Belong Here written by Moushumi Dutta Pathak and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical understanding of migration and its impact upon society New beginning of Partition History in the Brahmaputra Valley with the help of oral history Exploring the view of the Partition-Displaced Bengalis in the Brahmaputra Valley Elucidating the trauma of the Partition-Displaced Analysing the contemporary, societal situation with the coming of the Partition-Displaced Examining the rehabilitation measures provided to the Partition-Displaced Scutinising the legacy of partition in the Brahmaputra Valley
Download or read book Rival Claims written by Bethany Lacina and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data-driven study of the relationship between ethnoterritorial conflict in India and the government's centralized power
Download or read book History of the Assamese Movement Since 1947 written by Dilipkumar Chattopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Defence Review written by Bharat Verma and published by Lancer Publishers. This book was released on 2009-07-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Volume: Take the war to the enemy - Bharat VermaINDIAN DEFENCE REVIEW COMMENT: Islam and its many trends - Anand K Verma Is this how we treat our military? - RSN SinghDEFENCE and TECHNOLOGY MONITOR: India's Mission to Moon - G Madhavan Nair Indian Air Force of the Future - Air Marshal BK Pandey Way to a credible deterrent - Arun S Vishwakarma Shourya/Sagarika Missile - Arun S Vishwakarma Indian Defence Procurement Regime: Dissuasive Features - Maj Gen Mrinal SumanEmerging Asian Security Environment - Kanwal Sibal Intelligence Reform - Vikram Sood The Chinese Conundrum: Friends and Foes - Air Marshal Narayan Menon The killers' mace of the dark visitors - Claude Arpi Technologies and National Security - Ajey Lele Dealing with Pakistan - Lt Gen HC Dutta Air Power and Irregular Warfare: In the Indian Context - Air Cmde Arjun SubramaniamDEFENCE and TECHNOLOGY MONITOR: Maritime Security - Commodore G Sharma Alternative Power Source for LCA BEL MBDA CONTROP Terrorist Attacks From Sea: Role of Offshore Patrol Vessels - Vice Adm Rajeshwer Nath Defence procurements sans competition - Maj Gen Mrinal SumanCoastal and maritime security: Two Sides of the Same Coin - Vice Adm PS Das India's sea-blindness - Cdr Gurpreet S Khurana India and China in Space - Jagannath P Panda and Ajey Lele From Kashmir to Mumbai: Terror Comes Full Circle - RohIt SinghON THE SPOT REPORT: Gaps in Maritime Security - VK ShashikumarUlfa's niche war - Colonel Rajinder Singh The Poonch Fiasco: A Time to Ponder - Rohit SinghEXECUTIVE SUMMARY BY B RAMAN: Pakistan banks on perceived Indian amenability to US pressure Why Miliband tries to rationalize LeT's terrorist attack in Mumbai?DEFENCE and TECHNOLOGY MONITOR: Eurofighter EADS DandSVIEWPOINT: Solution to the Pakistani terrorist quagmire - Vijaykumar S Kasi
