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1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) |
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IIAS/ISEAS series on Asia |
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IIAS/ISEAS series on Asia.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE HISTORY OF A PERSISTENT IMAGE; 3. 'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING GARO': GARO NARRATIVES OF SELF; 4. PEOPLES WITHOUT HISTORY?; 5. 'DUAL WERE DUAL, KOCHU WERE KOCHU': GAROS DIVIDED; 6. NEGOTIABLE BOUNDARIES, NEGOTIABLE IDENTITIES; 7. GAROS AND CHRISTIANITY; 8. GAROS AND THE STATE; 9. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: FROM TRIBES TO ETHNIC MINORITIES; REFERENCES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Summary |
This study is a critical investigation into the category of tribes in South Asia. It breaks away from previous studies of tribes in the region. While it focuses on one so-called tribal community, the Garos of Bangladesh, it neither studies Garo culture as such, nor their social organization. Instead it deals with the evolution of Garo identity/ethnicity and with the progressive making of cultural characteristics that support a sense of "Garo-ness", in the context of the complex historical developments in this part of South Asia and the world. The importance of this work is not confin |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Garo (Indic people) -- Bangladesh -- History
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Garo (Indic people) -- Bangladesh -- Social conditions
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Garo (Indic people)
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Garo (Indic people) -- Social conditions
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Bangladesh
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History
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Electronic book
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