Dear Deep da The 3rd issue of Friends is scheduled to be published in second week of December this year and there is also a plan to publish a newsletter in Assamese with some of the translated articles. Would like to write on this topic - a profile on Jayeeta Sharma You may also conside a technical article. Thanks Ankur
--- On Mon, 7/18/11, Medhi, Deep <[email protected]> wrote: From: Medhi, Deep <[email protected]> Subject: [Assam] FW: Announcing Empire's Garden by Jayeeta Sharma To: "A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, July 18, 2011, 12:54 PM 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. _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
