Planter Raj to Swaraj : Freedom Struggle and Electoral Polotics in Assam 1826-1947

This is a re-issue of Amalendu Guha's influential work on Assam and the Northeast 30 years after its original publication with a new introduction by the author. Guha's analysis extends from Assam in 1826 the year of the British annexation to the post-independence conditions in 1950. The peculiar features of the region's plantation economy; the imperialism of opium cultivation; the problems of a stready influx of immigrants and the backlash of a local linguistic chauvinism; peasants' and workers'...See More