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| Title: | The Changing Faces of Democratic Spaces in Urban Cosmopolitan Shillong |
| Authors: | Lulam, Renee C.
Basaiawmoit, Julius L. |
| Keywords: | Cosmopolitan
Oral History
Shillong
Northeast
Colonial Capital
Project Report |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | Unpublished |
| Abstract: | What is ‘cosmopolitan’ about a small city, hub of the Northeast, with a layered history of having been a colonial capital, then that of undivided Assam in post-independent India, and later, in 1972, the capital of a hill state carved out of Assam?
With spurts of communal violence since 1979, the dynamics of public spaces within Shillong have subtly shifted. Violence has been targeted
at specific communities, even as prejudices between and across communities continue.
Engagement with the past is intensely personal, and a resource for enhancing identity as well as explaining experience. Oral history’s potential for deeply evocative accounts creates innovative avenues for understanding personal events as profoundly social. This allows a broader perception of human interactions that have shaped the past and continue into the present.
With this backdrop, the project proposes to investigate if the urban spaces of Shillong truly express a cosmopolitan environment. Through
audio-recordings and an interpretative paper of oral testimonies from individuals of various backgrounds, the project enquires into the
central question of indigeneity versus the cosmopolitan in public spaces within the city of Shillong. |
| Description: | Call No - 895.22LULA FS-129.
Accession No - FS - 129, Dated - 18-03-2008
Archival Submission--
Final Report + Little Magazine Reporting + Newspaper clipping + Audio Files + List of Photographs + Footage in MiniDV. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/363 |
| Appears in Collections: | Independent Research Report (R)
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