{"product_id":"fragmented-memories-struggling-to-be-tai-ahom-in-india-9780822333739","title":"Fragmented Memories: Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India","description":"\u003ci\u003eFragmented Memories\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003eAssamese 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 \u003ci\u003eFragmented Memories\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eFragmented Memories\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark history told from the periphery of the Indian nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yasmin Saikia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.08lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.42w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822333739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYasmin Saikia is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Meadows of Gold: Telling Tales of the Swargadeos at the Crossroads of Assam.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40660797554803,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":45.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_db340e31-4e2e-4980-a47c-62b64b124c83.jpg?v=1673450250","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/fragmented-memories-struggling-to-be-tai-ahom-in-india-9780822333739","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}