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Fragmented Memories: Struggling to be TaiAhom in India,New
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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 latetwentiethcentury India. Yasmin Saikia describes how groups of Assamese identified themselves as TaiAhoma 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 TaiAhom identity movement, Saikia considers the problem of competing identities in India, the significance of place and culture, and the outcome of the memorybuilding project of the TaiAhom.Assamese herself, Saikia lived in several different TaiAhom villages between 1994 and 1996. She spoke with political activists, intellectuals, militant leaders, shamans, and students and observed and participated in TaiAhom religious, social, and political events. She read TaiAhom sacred texts and did archival researchlooking at colonial documents and government reportsin Calcutta, New Delhi, and London. In Fragmented Memories, Saikia reveals the different narratives relating to the TaiAhom as told by the postcolonial Indian government, British colonists, and various texts reaching back to the thirteenth century. She shows how TaiAhom identity is practiced in Assam and also in Thailand. Revealing how the dead history of TaiAhom 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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