Format:
Online-Ressource (251 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780415612531
Series Statement:
Transition in Northeastern India
Content:
This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges as fragments, this book sees these perspectives as continuing to be entrapped in a civilizational approach to history writing. Beginning in the pre-colonial period where it focuses on the negotiated character of state-formation during the Mughal imperium, the book then enters the space of the colonial where it looks at some of the early interventions of the East India Company. The anal
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Becoming a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Connected Stories, Disconnected Borders: Writing Histories of Borderlands; 1 The Political Economy of State-making in a Pre-colonial 'Frontier'; 2 Practices of Sovereignty, Practices of the Market and Early Colonialism; 3 Colonial Spaces: Land, Law and Migration; 4 Framing a Region: Politics of Speech in a Borderland; 5 Histories, Memories and Identities; 6 Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781136197222
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415612531
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Becoming a Borderland : The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India
Language:
English
Keywords:
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