✍️ Forwarded By Hiren Gohain
✍️ Compiled and Edited by Akhil Ranjan Dutta
AMALENDU GUHA SEMINAL WRITINGS brings together Guha’s seminal research papers and the book reviews written over two and a half decades (1965–90). Most of his research works were initially written as Occasional Papers both in the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune (1965–73) and in the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (CSSS), Calcutta (1973–90). Many were subsequently published in the research journals, particularly in the Social Scientist, Economic & Political Weekly and Indian Economic and Social History Review. Guha had two primary areas of research–Medieval and Early Colonial Assam and Nationalism in India. In the first area, he extensively investigated the transition processes from tribalism to feudalism and the state formation in North-East India in general and Assam in particular. Ahom state’s formation, structures and contradictions received wider focus in his research. In the second area Guha contributed immensely by theorising nationalism in India, which he called a dual process both manifesting as Pan-Indian nationalism and regional nationalism. Guha’s contributions towards ‘little nationalism’ in the context of Assam, which had taken a chauvinist turn during the Assam Movement, are considered seminal contributions to the debates on nationalism in India.
