Historical writings on British North-East India or the old province of Assam tread the beaten path of imperialist historiography and are generally confined to the periods preceding 1858. Against this background, Amalendu Guha’s Planter-Raj to Swaraj: Freedom Struggle and Electoral Politics in Assam, 1826-1947 is a pioneering work of its own Kind. Although the focal points of his study are the legislatures and electoral politics, the author has probed deep into the author has probed deep into the nature and extent of nationalist and popular movements in Assam, with particular reference to socio-economic and political factors.