{"product_id":"fragmented-memories-9780822334255","title":"Fragmented Memories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA study of identity and its connection to memory, focusing on the history of community identity formation among the Tai-Ahom in Assam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Yasmin Saikia opens a new door to margins of national power, memory, and history, where most people live today. Her fresh voice and engaging prose weave together high theory, political engagement, textual expertise, ethnographic detail, personal experience, and a sweeping command of history in South Asia from medieval times to the present, with critical wisdom and graceful poignancy. Her history is more than history. It is an erudite evocation of the multiple pasts of Tai-Ahom people struggling to invent themselves in contemporary Assam, modern India, and a world of national minorities.”—David Ludden, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Cambridge History of India: An Agrarian History of South Asia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Locating Tai-Ahom in Assam: The Place and People 1\u003cbr\u003e Part One \u003cbr\u003e Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Identity: Indian, Assamese and Tai-Ahom \u003cbr\u003e 1. Identification in India 37\u003cbr\u003e 2. Colonial Origins of Ahom 77\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Memory of the Local: The Stories the Buranjis Tell 113\u003cbr\u003e Part Two \u003cbr\u003e Tai-Ahom: A Language and Culture of Emotion \u003cbr\u003e 4. Rationalizing a History 147\u003cbr\u003e 5. Performance and Politics of Tai-Ahom 177\u003cbr\u003e 6. There Was No Plot in the People’s Struggle 225\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion The Past and Present: Connecting Memory, History and Identity 251\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 267\u003cbr\u003e Notes 269\u003cbr\u003e References 301\u003cbr\u003e Index 319","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406036803927,"sku":"9780822334255","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822334255.jpg?v=1730494325","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fragmented-memories-9780822334255","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}