Fragmented memories : struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India

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Fragmented memories : struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India

Yasmin Saikia

Duke University Press, 2004

  • : cloth
  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index

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  • Identification in India
  • Colonial origins of Ahom
  • The memory of the local : the stories the Buranjis tell
  • Rationalizing a history
  • Performance and politics of Tai-Ahom
  • There was no plot in the people's struggle

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Fragmented Memories is a beautifully rendered exploration of how, during the 1990s, socially and economically marginalized people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam sought to produce a past on which to base a distinctive contemporary identity recognized within late-twentieth-century India. Yasmin Saikia describes how groups of Assamese identified themselves as Tai-Ahom-a people with a glorious past stretching back to the invasion of what is now Assam by Ahom warriors in the thirteenth century. In her account of the 1990s Tai-Ahom identity movement, Saikia considers the problem of competing identities in India, the significance of place and culture, and the outcome of the memory-building project of the Tai-Ahom.Assamese herself, Saikia lived in several different Tai-Ahom villages between 1994 and 1996. She spoke with political activists, intellectuals, militant leaders, shamans, and students and observed and participated in Tai-Ahom religious, social, and political events. She read Tai-Ahom sacred texts and did archival research-looking at colonial documents and government reports-in Calcutta, New Delhi, and London. In Fragmented Memories, Saikia reveals the different narratives relating to the Tai-Ahom as told by the postcolonial Indian government, British colonists, and various texts reaching back to the thirteenth century. She shows how Tai-Ahom identity is practiced in Assam and also in Thailand. Revealing how the "dead" history of Tai-Ahom has been transformed into living memory to demand rights of citizenship, Fragmented Memories is a landmark history told from the periphery of the Indian nation.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Introduction Locating Tai-Ahom in Assam: The Place and People 1 Part One Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Identity: Indian, Assamese and Tai-Ahom 1. Identification in India 37 2. Colonial Origins of Ahom 77 3. The Memory of the Local: The Stories the Buranjis Tell 113 Part Two Tai-Ahom: A Language and Culture of Emotion 4. Rationalizing a History 147 5. Performance and Politics of Tai-Ahom 177 6. There Was No Plot in the People's Struggle 225 Conclusion The Past and Present: Connecting Memory, History and Identity 251 Epilogue 267 Notes 269 References 301 Index 319

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