India: Assam
(see also India since Independence)
Basics
Assam (Wikipedia).
On the Web: Articles
Architects of Violence: Illegal Immigrants & Communalization in Assam. Bidhan S. Laishram, Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies (6/16/05).
A Dangerous Us & Them Mindset. Sudhanshu Ranjan, Indian Express (11/21/03).
Voluntary Organizations & Militancy: A Personal Account. Sanjoy Ghose (1997).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization (UNPO).
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Barua, Harendranath. Reflections on Assam, 1944-1983: A Collection of Writings (Guwahati: Harendranath Barua Memorial Association, 1992).
Bhan, Shusheela. Impact of Ethnic Violence on Youth: A Study of Tribal-Nontribal Violence in Kokrajhar, Assam (Delhi: Shipra, 1999).
Bhattacharji, Chandana. Ethnicity & Autonomy Movement: Case of Bodo-Kacharis of Assam (Delhi: Vikas, 1996).
Ghose, Sanjoy. Sanjoy's Assam: Diaries & Writings of Sanjoy Ghose (NY: Penguin, 1998). Records a remarkable experience of rural community development on giant Majuli Island in the Brahmaputra. Author, founder of the URMUL Trust in Rajasthan, later abducted & killed by United Liberation Front of Assam.
Sharma, Dipti. Assamese Women in the Freedom Struggle (Calcutta: Punthi-Pustak, 1993).
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"India: The Turmoils of the Century" [1994], dir. Arnaud Mandagaran, 120m. From Filmakers' Library.