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BOOKS

Ahmad, Joyeeta. Poverty alleviation in Assam. New Delhi: The Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies and Hope India Publishing, 2009.

Ahmed, A.N.S. (ed.) Nationality question in Assam: the EPW 1980-81 debate. New Delhi: Akansha Publishing House, 2006.

Baro, Madhu Ram. The historical development of Boro language. Guwahati: N.L. Publications, 2007 (1990).

Barpujari, H.K. (ed.) The comprehensive history of Assam. Vol 1-5. Guwahati: Publication Board of Assam, 1990-94.

Barpujari, H.K. Assam in the days of company (1826-1858). Shillong: North-Eastern Hill University Publications, 1996 (1963).

Barpujari, H.K., S.K. Barpujari and A.C. Bhuyan (eds.) Political history of Assam. Vol I. Gauhati: Government of Assam, 1971.

Barua, Birinchi Kumar. History of Assamese literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2003 (1964).

Barua, Birinchi Kumar. Sankardeva: Vaisnava saint of Assam. Guwahati: Bina Library, 2009 (1960).

Baruah, Sanjib (ed.) Beyond counter-insurgency: breaking the impasse in northeast India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Baruah, Sanjib Durable disorder: understanding the politics of northeast India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Baruah, Sanjib India against itself: Assam and the politics of nationality. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Baruah, Sanjib The rise and decline of a separatist insurgency: contentious politics in Assam, India, in Rajat Ganguly (ed.), Autonomy and ethnic conflict in South and South-East Asia. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.

Baruah, Sunil Pawan. Press in Assam: origin and development. Guwahati: Lawyer’s Book Stall, 1999.

Bezbaruah, Madhurjya Prasad. Technological transformation of agriculture: a study from Assam. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1994.

Bezboruah, Dhirendra Nath (ed.) A game of chess: a timeless collection of fifteen powerful stories from Assam. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009.

Bhattacharjee, Sukalpa and Rajesh Dev (eds.) Ethno-narratives: identity and experience in north-east India. New Delhi: Anshah Publishing House, 2006.

Bhattacharya, Chandana. Ethnicity and autonomy movement: case of Bodo Kacharis of Assam. New Delhi: Vikash, 1996.

Bhattacharya, Pramod Chandra. Aspects of north-east Indian languages. Guwahati: Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language Art and Culture, 2003.

Bhattacharyya, Hiranya Kumar. Economic deve-lopment of Assam. Guwahati: APH Publishing Corporation, 1998.

Bhaumik, Subir. Troubled periphery: crisis of India’s periphery. New Delhi, California, London and Singapore: Sage Publications, 2009.

Bhuyan, A.C. and Sibopada De. Political history of Assam. Vol II. Gauhati: Government of Assam, 1978.

Bhuyan, A.C. and Sibopada De. Political history of Assam. Vol III. Guwahati: Publication Board Assam, 1999.

Bhuyan, S.K. Anglo-Assamese relations (1771-1826). Guwahati: Lawyer’s Book Stall, 1974 (1947).

Bhuyan, S.K. Lachit Barphukan and his times. Guwahati: Lawyer’s Book Stall, 1994 (1947).

Bhuyan, S.K. Tungkhungia Buranji or history of Assam. Guwahati: Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies, 1990 (1933).

Bora, Sheila. Student revolution in Assam (1917-1947): a historical survey. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1992.

Bordoloi, B.N. Report on the survey of alienation of tribal land in Assam. Guwahati: Assam Institute of Research for Tribals and Scheduled Castes, 1999.

Boro, Anil Kumar. A history of Bodo literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2010.

Bose, M.L. Social history of Assam. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1989.

Chakraborty, Gorky. Assam’s hinterland: society and economy in char areas. New Delhi: Akansha Publishing House, 2009.

Chaliha, Deveswar. Origin and growth of the Assamese language and its literature. Guwahati: Lawyer’s Book Stall, 2000 (1949).

Chattopadhyay, Dilip Kumar. History of the Assamese movement since 1947. Calcutta: Minerva Associates (Publications), 1990.

Chaube, S.K. Hill politics in northeast India. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2008 (1973).

Choudhury, Pratap Chandra. The history of civilization of the people of Assam to the twelfth century A.D. Guwahati and Delhi: Spectrum Publications, 1987 (1959).

Das, Arup Jyoti. Kamatapur and the Koch Rajbanshi imagination. Guwahati: Montage Media, 2009.

Das, Jyoti. Ambrosia… from the Assamese kitchen. New Delhi: Rupa, 2008.

Das, Kalyan. Constructing a human security governance index for northeast India, in Amitabh Acharya, Subrat K. Singh Deo and M Rajaratnam (eds.), Human security: from concepts to practice: case studies from northeast India and Orissa. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2011.

Das, Manamohan. Peasant agriculture in Assam: a structural analysis. New Delhi: Inter-India Publications, 1984.

Datta Ray, B. and S.P. Agrawal (eds.) Reorganisation of north-east India since 1947. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1996.

Datta, P.S. Autonomy movements in Assam (documents). New Delhi: Omsons Publications, 1991.

Datta, P.S. Ethnic movements in poly-cultural Assam. New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications in Association with Vikas Publishing House, 1990.

Deori, Saranan. Religious practices of the deoris. Guwahati: Bina Library, 2002.

Dev, B.J. and D.K. Lahiri. Assam Muslims: politics and cohesion. Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1985.

Dhar, Pranab Kumar. The economy of Assam. New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers, 2010 (1987).

Dutta, Akhil Ranjan (ed.) Culture, ideology, politics: Jyotiprashad Agarwala and his vision on social transformation. New Delhi: DVS Publications, 2011.

Dutta, Mrinal Kanti. Irrigation potential in agriculture of Assam. New Delhi: Concept Publishing , 2011.

Dutta, Uddipan. Creating Robin Hoods: the insurgency of the ULFA in its early period, its parallel administration and the role of Assamese verna- cular press (1985-1990). New Delhi, Wiscomp (Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace), 2008.

Gait, Edward A. A history of Assam. Guwahati: Lawyer’s Book Stall, 1990 (1905).

Gohain, Hiren. Assam: a burning question. Guwahati: Spectrum Publications, 1985.

Gokhale, Nitin A. The hot brew: the Assam tea industry’s most turbulent decade (1987-1997). Guwahati and Delhi: Spectrum Publications, 1998.

Goswami, P.C. The economic development of Assam. New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers, 2004 (1988).

Goswami, Sandhya. Language politics in Assam. Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1997.

Guha, Amalendu. Medieval and early colonial Assam: society, polity, economy. Calcutta and New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, 1991.

Guha, Amalendu. Planter raj to swaraj: freedom struggle and electoral politics in Assam (1826- 1947). New Delhi: People’s Publishing House, 1988 (1977).

Hamilton, Francis. An account of Assam. Gauhati: Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies, 1963.

Hauzel, Hoihnu. The essential north-east cookbook. New Delhi: Penguin, 2003.

Hazarika, Niru. Profile of youth organisations in northeast India. Guwahati: V.V. Rao Institute of Micro Studies and Research, 1998.

Hazarika, Sanjoy. Rites of passage – border crossings, imagined homelands: India’s East and Bangladesh. New Delhi: Penguin, 2000.

Hazarika, Sanjoy. Strangers of the mist: tales of war and peace from India’s northeast. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1995.

Hussain, Monirul. Interrogating development: state, displacement and popular resistance in northeast India. New Delhi, California and Singapore: Sage, 2008.

Hussain, Monirul. IThe Assam movement: class, ideology and identity. Delhi: Manak Publications, in associations with Har-Anand, 1993.

Jenkins, Francis. Report on the north-east frontier of India (ed. H.K. Barpujari). Guwahati and Delhi: Spectrum Publications, 1995.

Kakati, Banikanta. Assamese its formation and development. Guwahati: Lawyer’s Book Stall, 1972.

Kakati, Satis Chandra. Problems of north-east. Guwahati: Assam Book Depot, 1996.

Kandali, Moushumi. Listen my flower-bud: Mishing tribal oral poetry of Assam. New Delhi: Rastriya Sahitya Akademi, 2008.

Kar, Bodhisattva. Incredible stories in the time of credible histories: colonial Assam and translations of vernacular geographies, in Partha Chatterjee (ed.), History in the vernacular. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008.

Kar, Bodhisattva. What is in a name? politics of spatial imagination in colonial Assam. Guwahati: Centre for Northeast India, South and Southeast Asia Studies, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, 2004.

Kar, Makhanlal. Muslims in Assam politics. New Delhi: Vikas, 1997.

Mahanta, Nani Gopal. Human security mapping in conflict zones, in Amitabh Acharya, Subrat K. Singh Deo and M. Rajaratnam (eds.), Human security: from concepts to practice: case studies from northeast India and Orissa. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2011.

Medhi, Kaliram. Assamese grammar and origin of the Assamese language. Guwahati: Publication Board of Assam, 1988.

Medhi, Shyam Bhadra. Transport system and economic development in Assam. Guwahati: Publication Board, 1978.

Miri, Mrinal (ed.) Linguistic situation in north-east India. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 2003 (1982).

Miri, Sujata. Communalism in Assam: a civilizational approach. New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications, 1993.

Misra, Sanghamitra. Becoming a borderland: space and identity in colonial northeastern India. New Delhi: Routledge, 2011.

Misra, T. (ed.) The Oxford anthology of writings from north-east India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Misra, T. Literature and society in Assam: a study of the Assamese renaissance (1826-1926), Guwahati and New Delhi: Omsons Publications, 1987.

Misra, Udayon. North-east India: quest for identity. Guwahati and New Delhi: Omsons Publications, 1988.

Misra, Udayon. The periphery strikes back. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, 2000.

Misra, Udayon. The transformation of Assamese identity. Shillong: North East India History Association, 2001.

Nag, Sajal. India and northeast: mind, politics and the process of integration: 1946-1950. New Delhi: Regency Publications, 1998.

Nag, Sajal. Roots of ethnic conflict: nationality question in north-east India. New Delhi: Manohar, 1990.

Narzary, Charan. Dream for Udaayachal and the history of plains tribal council of Assam (PTCA, 1957-93). Kokrajhar and Guwahati: N.L. Publications, 2011.

Neog, Maheswar. Religions of the northeast: studies in the formal religions of the northeastern India. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1984.

Neog, Maheswar. Sankardeva and his times: early history of the Vaisnava faith and movement in Assam. Guwahati: Lawyer’s Book Stall, 1998.

Neog, Maheswar. Socio-political events in Assam leading to the militancy of the Mayamaria Vaisnavas. Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi and Company, 1982.

Pakem, B. (ed.) Nationality, ethnicity and cultural identity in north-east India. Guwahati and New Delhi: Omsons Publications, 1990.

Phukan, Girin and Nikunjalata Dutta (eds.) Assam’s attitude towards federalism. Guwahati: Sterling, 1984.

Phukan, Girin and Nikunjalata Dutta (eds.) Politics of identity and nation and nation building in north east India. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 1997.

Phukan, Monuj. Students’ politics in Assam: a study of all Tai students’ union. Delhi: Anshah Publishing House, 2005.

Prabhakara, M.S. Looking back into the future: identity and insurgency in northeast India. London, New York and New Delhi: Routledge, 2012.

Rafiabadi, H.N. Assam from agitation to accord. New Delhi: Genuine Publications and Media, 1998.

Roy, Ajay. The Boro imbroglio. Guwahati: Spectrum Publications, 1995.

Saikia, A., H. Goswami and A. Goswami. Popula- tion growth in Assam 1951-1991 with focus on migration. New Delhi: Akansha Publishing House, 2003.

Saikia, Arupjyoti. Forests and ecological history of Assam (1826-2000). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Saikia, Nagen (ed.) Assam and the Assamese mind. Jorhat: Asam Sahitya Sabha, 1980.

Saikia, Pahi. Ethnic mobilisation and violence in northeast India. New Delhi: Routledge India, 2011.

Saikia, Yasmin. Assam and India: fragmented memories, cultural identity and the Tai-Ahom struggle. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2005.

Saikia, Yasmin. In the meadows of gold: telling tales of the swargadeos at the crossroads of Assam. New Delhi: Spectrum Publication, 1997.

Sarma, Gobinda Prasad (ed.) 150 years of journalism in Assam. Guwahati: Media Trust Assam, 2007.

Sharma, Jayeeta. Empire’s garden: Assam and the making of India. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2012.

Sharma, Manorama. Social an economic change in Assam: middle class hegemony. New Delhi: South Asia Books, 1990.

Trivedi, V.R. Documents on Assam (Vol. 1 and 2). New Delhi: Omsons Publications, 1995.

Weiner, M. Sons of the soil: migration and ethnic conflict in India. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.

ARTICLES

Ahmed, N. Assam Bengal trade in the nedieval period: a numismatic perspective. ‘Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient’ 33(2): 1990.

Barbora, Sanjay. Assam’s new voice of dissent. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 46(28): 2011.

Baruah, Ditee Moni. The refinery movement in Assam. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 46(1): 2011.

Baruah, Sanjib. Separatist militants and contentious politics in Assam, India: the limits of counterinsurgency. ‘Asian Survey’ 49(6): November/December 2009.

Baruah, Sanjib. Whose river is it anyway? The political economy of hydropower in the eastern Himalayas. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 47(29): 2012.

Baruah, Sriparna B. Textile mills of Assam: is privatisation the answer. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 28(31): 1993.

Choudhury, Sujit. Assam election commission and the Assam accord. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 20(49): 1985.

Das, Kalyan. Tea smallholdings in Assam: is there a way out? ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 47 (11): 2012.

Dasgupta, Anindita. Civilians and localisation of conflict in Assam. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 39(40): 2004.

Dasgupta, Anindita. Remembering Sylhet: a forgotten story of India’s 1947 partition. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 43(31): 2008.

Devi, Monimala. Economic history of Nepali migration and settlement in Assam. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 42(29): 2007.

Gohain, Hiren. Origin of Assamese middle class. ‘Social Scientist’ 2(1): 1973.

Goswami, Atul. Assam’s industrial development: urgency of new direction. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 16(21): 1981.

Goswami, Chandrama. Agricultural land use in plains of Assam. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 37(49): 2002.

Goyari, Phanindra. Flood damages and sustainability of agriculture in Assam. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 40(26): 2005.

Guha, Amalendu. The Ahom political system: an enquiry into the state formation process in medieval Assam (1228-1714). ‘Social Scientist’ 11(12): 1983.

Kandali, Moushumi. Art scene of Assam. ‘Art News and Views; A journal on Art, Antique Cinema, Collectible Culture, Furniture, Music’ 2(10), 2010.

Kandali, Moushumi. The modern art scenario of Assam: a saga of persistence. ‘Kala Deergha: A Six Monthly Journal of Visual Art’ 9(18): 2009.

Kar, Bodhisattva. Historia elastica: a note on the rubber hunt in the north-eastern frontier of British India. ‘Indian Historical Review’ 36: June 2009.

Kar, Bodhisattva. Tongue has no bone: fixing the Assamese language (c. 1800-c. 1930). ‘Studies in History’ 24: 2008.

Lacina, Bethany. Does counterinsurgency theory apply in northeast India? ‘India Review’ 6(3): 2007.

Lacina, Bethany. The problem of political stability in north- east India: Local ethnic autocracy and the rule of law. ‘Asian Survey’ 49(6): 2009.

Pathak, Suryasikha. Tribal politics in the Assam: 1933-1947. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 45(10): 2010.

Saikia, Arupjyoti. Landlords, tenants and agrarian relations: revisiting a peasant uprising in colonial Assam. ‘Studies in History’ 26(2): 2010.

Saikia, Arupjyoti. Oral tradition, nationalism and Assamese social history: remembering a peasant uprising. ‘The Indian Economic and Social History Review’ 49(1): 2012.

Sarma, J.N. Problems of economic development in Assam. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 1(7): 1966.

Sharma, Chandan Kumar. Poverty and inequality: case of Assam. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 30(7-8): 1995.

Sharma, Narayan, M.D. Madhusudan and Anindya Sinha. Socio-economic drivers of forest cover change in Assam: a historical perspective. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 47(5): 2012.

Sonowal, Chandra Jyoti. Forest villages in Assam-aontinued ghettoisation. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 32(39): 1997.

Vandekerckhove, Nel. The state, the rebel and the chief: public authority and land disputes in Assam, India. ‘Development and Change’ 42(3): May 2011.

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