Discovery of North-East India : Geography, History, Culture, Religion, Politics, Sociology, Science, Education and Economy Vol.5: Assam Economy, Society and Culture /
edited by S.K. Sharma and Usha Sharma
- New Delhi: Mittal Publication, 2005.
- 512p. 23cm.
CONTENTS 1. Labour Condition in Assam 2. Tea Garden Labourers in Assam 3. Harijans Manufactures in Tea Estates of Assam 4. Khaddar in Assam 5. The Pernicious Effects of the Assam Agricultural Debtors Act 6. Regional Economy of the Barrack Valley (Assam) 7. Growth of the Tea Industry 8. Opium in Assam 9. Opium in Assam 10. Opium Evil in Assam 11. The Future Government of the Tribal People 12. The Deoris 13. Some Notes on a Policy for the Hill Tribes of Assam 14. The Aboriginal Tribes of Assam 15. Austric Race and Assam 16. The Hill Tribes of Assam 17. My Impressions of Assam 18. A Lest Pleasant Errand 19. Assam Tragedy and its Inner Story 20. On Some Castes and Caste Origins in Sylhet 21. Hidden Traces of Buddhism in Assam 22. Later Buddhism in Kamarupa 23. Religion 24. Gauhati- The Temple Town of Assam 25. Slavery in Assam 26. Human Sacrifices in Assam 27. Assam Speaks 28. The People of Assam 29. Noble Women of Assam 30. Districtwise Population Percentages of Hindus and Muslims and Other Religions in Assam 31. Fine Arts 32. Early Painting of Assam 33. The Kamarupa School of Sculpture 34. Music in Assam 35. Assamese Music 36. Ankiyanaat- Devotional Theatre of Assam 37. Pre-Historic Culture in Assam 38. Were there Indian colonists from Assam in Indo-China? 39. The Cinderella Motif in Assamese Folk-tales 40. Folk-Songs 41. The Bihu-geet (Assamese Pastoral Songs) 42. Assam- The Land and the Languages 43. Greater Assam and Languages 44. Assamese, the Official Languages of Assam 45. The Assamese Languages 46. Prose 47. Literature 48. Assamese Literature- Ancient and Modern 49. Modern Assamese Literature 50. A Short Account of the Rise and Progress of Journalism in the Assam Valley 51. Greatness of a University 52. Agro Climatic Regional Planning 53. Our Heritage 54. Reconciling the Irreconcilables 55. The Gap Between Plan and Action 56. The Objective of Our Education 57. Entrepreneurial and Innovative Education 58. KnowledgeReadiness of a Nation 59. From the Copying Mode to the Forward Engineering Mode 60. The Peril and Promise of Higher Education in India 61. Exemplenary Education