The volume under review examines the interlinkages between education and culture in Northeast India using a socio-historical and cultural lens. The author argues that the erstwhile province of undivided Assam’s trajectory of development of education was quite different from the rest of India owing to the delayed growth of western and higher education in Assam. This in turn had a significant impact on the evolution of Assamese culture, identity and society.
November 2006, volume 30, No 11