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Sajal Nag
Sajal Nag is Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Distinguished Chair Professor in Social Sciences at Presidency University, Kolkata. He specialises in the history of modern North-East India. He has published extensively on different aspects of India's North-EastHe was a professor of history at Assam University, Silchar. Earlier, and was associated with the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, and the Centre for Social Studies, Surat.
In 2008 Prof. Sajal Nag was Charles Wallace Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge (UK). He was a Commonwealth Fellow to United Kingdom during 2004–2005 and a visiting senior research fellow at Queen's University, Belfast. He was senior fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi for two years 2013–2014.
With several published books and research articles, his book ''India and North East India: Mind, Politics and the Process of Integration 1946-1950'' (Regency, Delhi, 1998) was nominated for Srikant Dutt Memorial Award for the Best Book on North East India in 2002 and, more recently, the book ''Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity, Insurgency and Sub nationalism in North East India'' (Manohar, New Delhi, 2002) was short listed for the New India Foundation Awards for the Best Book in Non-Fiction Category. He is also the member of the Govt. of India's NCERT Curriculum Revision Committee in Contemporary Indian Politics. He has been the Oxfam Consultant for North East Indian Affairs and a part of its India Disaster Report and Violence Mitigation and Amelioration Project and a contributor to its India Disaster Report. Currently, he is an executive member of the International South Asian Environmental Historians. and Indian History Congress. Provided by Wikipedia
Beleaguered Nation : The Making and Unmaking of the Assamese Nationality /
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The multi-ethnic state of Assam emerged to be a minefield of conflict and violence over assertions of autonomy in the 1980s. While the Assamese leaders were fighting a battle against the Bengali and the fear of immigrant Muslim domination after independence, one by one other tribal groups challenged the hegemony of the Assamese and broke free from the state: the Naga, the Khasi-Jyntia, the Mizo and the Arunachalis. They were followed by the Bodos, Dimasas and the Karbis who despite having got their autonomy are still fighting a fierce battle for complete statehood. There is a growing demand for a Ahom and Kamatapur state as well as from the smaller communities like the Rabhas, Hasong, Tiwa, Mishing, Sonowal Kachari, Thangal Kachari and Deuris, and even domiciled Gorkhas which if conceded would reduce the size of the Assamese nationality and Assamese territory to only a few pockets. There are extremist outfits like the United Liberation Front of Assam which saw secession from India as the solution to the problem of Assamese nationality, others like the Karbi National Volunteers, United Peoples Democratic Solidarity, Dima Haloa Daoga (two factions), Kuki National Front and Kuki National Army, Bodo Security Force, National Democratic Front of Bodoland resorted to violence as a mode of their assertions. Unprecedented turbulence, instability, violence, and internal displacement engulfed the entire region creating a severe crisis for the Indian state. Submerged in this ethnic cauldron, the Assamese were indeed a beleaguered nation fighting for survival amidst such multiple ethnic challenges. This book is about contradictions, conflicts, machinations, subversions, nature of state intervention and the intricate process of making and unmaking of Assamese nationality vis-a-vis north east India.
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