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Assam in History and Memory examines the shaping of Assamese historiography in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A major theme of this study is the fascinating local tradition of buranji literature, which gives primacy to historical memory and has played a key role in the creation of the modern Assamese past. The book also explores the complex relationship between vernacular historiography, Assamese nationalism, and the construction of an Assamese linguistic identity in the colonial and postcolonial periods. In tracing such historiographical transformations, the book identifies the changing political, social and cultural contexts in the colonial period, when the politics of identity were reworked and the modern Assamese past was restructured.

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Sudeshna Purkayastha teaches history at Assam University, Silchar. Her areas of interest include economic and social history of colonial India in general and Assam in particular, as well as the vernacular historiography of Assam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the colonial expansion in India. She has contributed several research papers to academic journals and edited volumes and is the author of Indigenous Industries of Assam (1870-1925).

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