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Madhurjya Dey

Page 98

Page 98

2026

Oil on board

A page from XXXXXxxxxxxx’s report that now exists as a PDF, commissioned by the British to make a case for the Crown Colony. The installation investigates the mid-20th-century struggle for a complete hill state in Assam, drawing parallels between that lived demand for autonomy and the "imagined territory" of a colony that never was. The work is a speculation of the dead colonial interest feeding the need for a separate state within the Indian Union.

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