TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baruah, Manjeet
TI  - Frontier cultures : a social history of Assamese literature
SN  - 9780415500807
U1  - 809.954162 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Delhi, Abingdon : 
PB  - Routledge, 
KW  - Assamese Literature
KW  - History and Criticism
KW  - Literature and Society
KW  - Assam, India
N1  - Preface. Acknowledgements Part I: Situating the Problem:- Introduction -- 1. The Valley, 'Border' and the Question of Order -- 2. Buranjis and Sankari Culture: Language and Narrative in Pre-colonial Textual Traditions -- 3. Language Shift and Narrative: Pre-colonial Continental Crossroad to Colonial Frontier. Conclusion ---- Part II: Literature and Socio-spatial Relations:- Introduction -- 4. Language and Narrative: Negotiating between Difference and Contradiction -- 5. Narrative and Social Base: The Irony of Breakdown -- 6. Reinventing Frontier Narrative -- Conclusion -- Appendix:- (a) An Account of Text and Social Origin of Author -- (b) Translations of Essays and Letters in Bahni -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index
ER  -