Fragmented Memories: Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India
ISBN-13:
9780822333739
ISBN-10:
0822333732
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Yasmin Saikia
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780822333739
ISBN-10:
0822333732
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Yasmin Saikia
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
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Fragmented Memories: Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India (ISBN-13: 9780822333739 and ISBN-10: 0822333732), written by authors
Yasmin Saikia, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2004.
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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.
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