NO KARMIC LAW
Citha D. Maass
Assam: A Valley Divided by Shekhar Gupta Vikas Publishing House, Delhi, 1984, 218 pp., 125
May-June 1984, volume 8, No 6

This is an uneasy book which disconcerts the reader with the narration of the history that ultimately culminated in the election tragedy of February 1983. It is moreover, a book which is very readable and lucid to the very last page. Published a year after the State Assembly Elections in Assam, it leaves little doubt of a possible repetition of the tragic episode in the context of the General Elections ex¬pected later this year.

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