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Biography of Jyotiprasad Agarwala, 1900-1951, dramatist and film maker from Assam, India.
লভিতা ৰূপকোঁৱৰ জ্যোতিপ্ৰসাদ আগৰৱালা ৰচিত চতুৰ্থখন সম্পূৰ্ণ নাট। ১৯৪৭ চনত ৰচিত এই নাটকখনত অসমৰ জনসাধাৰণৰ ওপৰত বিয়াল্লিছ চনৰ বিপ্লৱ আৰু অসমৰ ওপৰেদি বৈ যোৱা দ্বিতীয় মহাসমৰৰ ঢৌৱে কেনেদৰে প্ৰতিক্ৰিয়া কৰিছিল তাৰ এক চিত্ৰ ৰূপায়ণ কৰা হৈছে। ১৯৪৮ চনত প্ৰথমবাৰৰ বাবে প্ৰকাশিত হোৱা এই নাটকখন পাঁচটা অংকত বিভক্ত।
Jyotiprasad Agarwala, 1903-1951, Assamese dramatist; contributed articles.
No culture is apolitical and no politics is acultural. Culture being the outcome of collective endeavor represents and reflects dreams, desire, pride, pain and glory of human life. It constructs the road of civilization and encourages all to go ahead even under failure and success. Culture refers to the consciousness about life and social relations in economic and political activities in a society, including values, social consciousness and morality. Economic and political practices are the basis and container of culture, while thoughts about and understanding of economic and political practices are the main content of culture.
Assamese children's play.
Contributed articles on the life and works of Jyotiprasad Agarwala, 1900-1951, Assamese author.
'A model work of historical scholarship'-Ramachandra Guha 'The most well-researched, comprehensive history of contemporary Assam ever written'-Partha Chatterjee The crucial battles of World War II fought in India's north-east-followed soon after by Independence and Partition-had a critical impact on the making of modern Assam. In the three decades following 1947, the state of Assam underwent massive political turmoil, geographical instability, and social and demographic upheaval, among others. Later, the truncated state suffered widespread unrest as various groups believed their cultural identity and political leverage were under threat. New social energies and political forces were unleashed and came to the fore. Definitive, comprehensive and unputdownable, The Quest for Modern Assam explores the interconnected layers of political, environmental, economic and cultural processes that shaped the development of Assam since the 1940s. It offers an authoritative account that sets new standards in the writing of regional political history. Not to be missed by any one keen on Assam, India, Asia or world history in the twentieth century.
A History of India's North-East Cinema: Deconstructing the Stereotypes, the first book on the history of cinema in this region, depicts the journey from the first Assamese film, Joymoti (1935), to the present time. This book addresses the peripheral status and identity crisis of North-Eastern people in mainland India, a region that comprises eight states, and examines the role of Bollywood in the construction and misrepresentation of this region in popular Hindi cinema. The book is divided into three parts. Part I looks at how the people of the North-East are constructed as 'foreigners' or 'outsiders' by mainland Indians, due to their physical facial features. Part II discusses the socio-pol...
A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape.