Becoming a borderland : the politics of space and identity in colonial Northeastern India / Sanghamitra Misra.

By:

Misra, Sanghamitra [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Transition in Northeastern India ; 2.Publication details: New Delhi : Routledge, c2011.Description: xiv, 236 p. : map ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780415612531 (hbk.)
0415612535

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DDC classification:

23 954.053 MIS 007590

LOC classification:

DS483.7 .M57 2011

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Table of contents

Contents:

Introduction 1. The Political Economy of Statemaking 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. About the Author. Index.

Summary: Becoming a Borderland is a fresh look at how power was configure colonial times through spatial strategies. The book writes the spatial history of the western borderlands of northeastern India, focusing on its dramatic transformation within a span of a few decades, from a region with rich historical connections with the surrounding polities of Tibet, Nepal, Bengal and Assam, into a fragmented zone of polities and a colonial borderland. In its interest in issues of spatial analysis which it brings to bear for the first time in the context of northeastern India, the book forms part of an emerging genre of historical writing on borderlands and foregrounds new templates of connected histories that interrogates those moments in post-colonial history writing that routinely study the local or the region as mere 'fragments'. --Book Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-229) and index.

Becoming a Borderland is a fresh look at how power was configure colonial times through spatial strategies. The book writes the spatial history of the western borderlands of northeastern India, focusing on its dramatic transformation within a span of a few decades, from a region with rich historical connections with the surrounding polities of Tibet, Nepal, Bengal and Assam, into a fragmented zone of polities and a colonial borderland. In its interest in issues of spatial analysis which it brings to bear for the first time in the context of northeastern India, the book forms part of an emerging genre of historical writing on borderlands and foregrounds new templates of connected histories that interrogates those moments in post-colonial history writing that routinely study the local or the region as mere 'fragments'. --Book Jacket.

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