Our Videshi (Imports) are their Swadeshi: Women and the Ideas of the Swadeshi in Colonial Assam

The question of Swadeshi in a provincial context like in colonial Assam had to negotiate with several dilemmas. The issues of nationalism both economic as well the cultural, which might appear trivial at the wider context of the country had played significant role in moulding the identity of modern Assam. The question of modernity versus traditions also played their parts in it.