The study of Assamese literature has so far been in terms of the
history of the Assamese language. This book is a history of the
narratives written in Assamese language and its relation to the
process of region formation. The literature dealt with ranges from
pre-colonial chronicles, ballads and drama to modern genres of
fiction and critical writing in Assamese language. Taking the
Brahmaputra valley and Assamese literature as case studies, the
author attempts to link literature, its nature and use, to
processes of region formation, arguing that such a study needs to
take the context of historical geography into consideration. The
book views region formation in north-east India as a dialectical
process, that is, the dialectic between the shared and the distinct
in inter-group and community relations. It borrows an
anthropological approach to study written narratives and cultures
so as to locate such narratives in specific processes of region
formation.
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