Duke University Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
Empire's
Garden<http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=16733>:
Assam and the Making of India
Jayeeta Sharma
"This rich history of Assam fills a void in scholarship. Assam is an area of
South Asia that has received little attention from serious historians of the
subcontinent, except those working on the tea industry. Jayeeta Sharma provides
us with fascinating details of Assam's history. More importantly, she relates
local themes to larger issues of South Asian history: colonial ideologies of
race and the importance of these ideologies to the political economy, the
structure of colonial rule, the development of the public sphere, and the
reformulation of identities under colonial circumstances. Empire's Garden also
helps us to understand the historical dimensions of contemporary conflicts in
the region, without making the conflicts seem predetermined by what happened in
the colonial period."-Douglas E. Haynes, author of Rhetoric and Ritual in
Colonial India: The Shaping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852-1928
July 2011. 334 pages, 15 illustrations / 978-0-8223-5049-1, paper $25.95
Duke University Press
http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=16733
Jayeeta Sharma is Assistant Professor of History and Global Asia Studies at the
University of Toronto. She did her PhD from Cambridge University.
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