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Religion, Nostalgia, and Memory: Making an Ancient and Recent Tai-Ahom Identity in Assam and Thailand
Ist Teil von
The Journal of Asian studies, 2006-02, Vol.65 (1), p.33-60
Ort / Verlag
New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Saikia follows the movement to establish Tai-Ahom self-consciousness and political identity in Assam, an identity that challenges the religious, geographical, historical, and epistemological limits of contemporary India. The construction of a new religion, Phra Lung, incorporating features of Buddhism and ancestor worship, and the efforts of pan-nationalist Thai scholars, conjured a history and collective memory that intended to distinguish and legitimate the Tai-Ahom minority as a community that was not quite, and perhaps not rightly, "Indian."