Forgotten friends monks, marriages, and memories of Northeast India

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 histo...

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Main Author: Chatterjee, Indrani
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2013, 2013
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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