• Dr Kakali Dutta

Lack of attention of the Indian policy-makers towards the north east have also provoked Assam to express its demands for self-determination and greater autonomy through subnationalist dissent that also expanded to insurgencies and counter insurgencies. Assam has been engaged in subnationalist politics intermittently in the past, but continuously since the 1980s. This paper takes the case of the civil society which played an important role in the growth of subnationalism in Assam. This paper locates the space of the civil society as the root of subnationalist politics. It takes Rita Choudhury’s novel “Ei Somoy Sei Samoy”/These Times Those Times which is set against the backdrop of the Assam Movement(1979-85). Here Rita Choudhury narrativizes the Assamese Civil Society and the major role it played in the Assam Movement

Civil Society, Subnationalism, Disillusionment, mainstream nationalism

"The Civil Society, Subnational Politics and the Narratives of Disillusionment in Rita Chaudhuri’s Ei Samoy Sei Samoy/These Times Those Times ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.78-85, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907U49.pdf

"The Civil Society, Subnational Politics and the Narratives of Disillusionment in Rita Chaudhuri’s Ei Samoy Sei Samoy/These Times Those Times ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp78-85, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907U49.pdf