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082957
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New Delhi, Lancer Books, 1996.
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xiii, 187p.hbk
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8172010570
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 053670 | 954.1/GUR 053670 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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140289
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On 15 August 1950, just as India was celebrating its third independence anniversary, an earthquake of 8.6 magnitude struck the remote northeastern state of Assam and its surrounding borderlands. Rivers burst their banks and landslides blocked Himalayan valleys, destroying towns, villages, roads, fields, and tea gardens in their wake. Beyond the disaster's shattering impact on the physical geography of the region, this article explores how it participated in another reconfiguration—that of Assam's place within India's political geography and national imaginary. The Indian public had hitherto known very little about India's remote ‘northeast frontier’; the cataclysm and subsequent relief measures served to carve out a space for it on Indian mental maps. Simultaneously, by forcing a large-scale encounter between Indian authorities and the people of the scarcely controlled eastern Himalayas, post-earthquake relief and rehabilitation led to unprecedented state expansion in this newly strategic borderland. Yet in the same breath, the aftermath of the disaster fuelled stereotypes about Assam and its hinterland that would eventually further their marginality within India and undermine their continued unity. The crystallization of Assam's image as a place irreducibly subject to the whims of nature and, more importantly, incapable of taking care of itself (and hence, of its highland dependencies), would poison centre–state relations for decades to come. Imperfect and contradictory, the reordering of this border space from a colonial frontier to a component of independent India's national space did not end marginality, but instead reinforced it.
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124834
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2013.
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This article draw the picture of some inter-ethnic tensions that beset the northeastern Indian state of Assam and neighbouring ones. It point out that social discrimination and prejudice against the people of the region are wide speared in the rest of India and need to be fought by both the government and civil society. In additional, more efforts must be put into developing the resources of this sensitive but neglected region to create greater prosperity and economic opportunities, notably in the tourism sector.
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