SOCIAL TENSIONS IN ASSAM

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Author: APURBA KUMAR BARUAH

Assamese nationalism and its consequences for the smaller communities of Assam. Assamese -Bengali relations, problems of land reforms and the nature of student movements are some live issues of contemporary Assamese Society. In these essays, Baruah analyses certain critical aspects of these issues from a Marxist perspective. The author maintains that all these issues can be understood only in the context of the dominant position occupied by the Assamese-speaking middle class of the Brahmaputra Valley. He shows that the tensions which prevail in the contemporary Assamese Society are the results of the politics practiced by the middle class, destined to play the role of the most advanced section in an area marked by near colonial exploitation and poly-ethnic demography.