000			01639nam a22001937a 4500
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020			_a9781138043305
041			_aEnglish.
082			_a305.800954162 _bGOS-C
100			_aGoswami, Uddipana _eAuthor.
245			_aConflict and Reconcilication: _bThe Politics of Ethnicity in Assam/ _cUddipana Goswami
260			_aNewyork: _bRoutledge, _c2022.
300			_axxv, 221 pages.
504			_aIncludes bibliography and index.
520			_aDiverging from reductionist studies of Northeast India and its multifarious conflicts, this book presents an exclusive and intricate, empirical and theoretical study of Assam as a conflict zone. It traces the genesis and evolution of the ethnic and nationalistic politics in the state, and explores how this gave birth to nativist and militant movements. It further discusses how the State’s responses seem to have exacerbated rather than mitigated the conflict situation. The author proposes ethnic reconciliation as an effective way out of the current chaos, and finds the key in examining the relations between three communities (Axamiyā, Bodo and Koch) from Bodoland, the most violent region of Assam. She stresses upon the need to redefine ‘Axamiyā’, an issue of much discord in Assam’s ethnic politics since the modern-day formulation of the Axamiyā nation. The book will prove essential to scholars and students of peace and conflict studies, sociology, political science, and history, as also to policy-makers and those interested in Northeast India.
546			_aEnglish.
650			_aEthnicity _z India _zAssam.
650			_aEthnic conflict _z India
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