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Religion, Nostalgia, and Memory: Making an Ancient and Recent Tai-Ahom Identity in Assam and Thailand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2007

Yasmin Saikia
Yasmin Saikia
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Saikia@email.unc.edu Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 33 - 60
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