Fragmented MemoriesFragmented Memories is a beautifully rendered exploration of how, during the 1990s, socially and economically marginalized people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam sought to produce a past on which to base a distinctive contemporary identity recognized within late twentieth century India. Yasmin Saikia describes how groups of Assamese identified themselves as Tai Ahoma people with a glorious past stretching back to the invasion of what is now