Book Reviews : RAJEN SAIKIA, Social and Economic History of Assam, 1853-1921, Manohar, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 258

Abstract

courtesan households, and upwardly-mobile urban and rural groups negotiated a place in the middle class and its public sphere. Cultural attitudes of Hindu and Muslim middle classes could have been usefully compared. The author tells us that he had to leave out a lot of detail when transforming his doctoral thesis into a book. Readers might hope that this detail will find place in the author’s next book.