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Forgotten friends : monks, marriages, and memories of Northeast India / Indrani Chatterjee.
Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199082551 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Brahmaputra River Valley -- Religious life and customs -- History | Buddhism -- Brahmaputra River Valley -- History | Hinduism -- Brahmaputra River Valley -- History | Sufism -- Brahmaputra River Valley -- History | Women and religion -- Brahmaputra River Valley -- HistoryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198089223DDC classification: 294.095416 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This text traces the changing, long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region. Examining the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufis in the northeast, this is a story of how a modern Indian nation forgot its cosmopolitan past and gave itself a new history by forgetting the large numbers of societies centred on women.| Item type | Current library | Copy number | Status | |
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This text traces the changing, long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region. Examining the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufis in the northeast, this is a story of how a modern Indian nation forgot its cosmopolitan past and gave itself a new history by forgetting the large numbers of societies centred on women.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 24, 2013).
Includes bibliographical references and index.