1st Edition
At the Margins of Empire Frontiers and Boundaries in British India
Introduction: At the Imperial Edges: Producing Frontiers, Making Boundaries
Lipokmar Dzüvichü and Manjeet Baruah
Part I: Economy, People, Frontier Geographies
Chapter 1: The Hanging of Siddhoo Koli: Tracing Subaltern Lives in the Early Colonial Himalaya, c. 1815-45
Arik Moran
Chapter 2: Dynamic Trades, Shifting Geographies: Commerce in the North East frontier of British India
Nabanita Sharma
Part II: War, Travel, Representation
Chapter 3: The River Sutlej as Frontier at the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46) in the personal chronicle of Prussian Prince Waldemar
Jutta Jain-Neubauer
Chapter 4: The Great Indian Desert in Colonial and Nomadic Narratives of Travel
Nilanjana Mukherjee
Part III: Imperial Politics, Peripheries, Frontier Governance
Chapter 5: Assam, Tibet and the Great Game: Imperial Geo-Politics in the Himalayas in the Long Nineteenth Century
Bikram Bora
Chapter 6: Policymaking and the Political-military Interface on the Periphery of Empire: The Battle for Waziristan in the Early 1920s
Jayne Gifford
Part IV: Infrastructure, Connectivity, Frontier Making
Chapter 7: Infrastructural Contingencies and Contingent Sovereignties on the Indo–Afghan Frontier
Abhilash Medhi
Chapter 8: The Making of a Defence Frontier: World War Two and British India's North East
Limasenla Jamir
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Lipokmar Dzüvichü is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His research work covers themes on history of frontiers and borderlands, transport history, history of goods and circulation, labour history, history of modern infrastructure, and visual history.
Manjeet Baruah is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His research work covers themes on literary and cultural history; study of space and text; colonialism; and the study of frontiers and borderlands. His most recent published book is Hunter, Peasant, Rebel: Colonialism and the British Assam Frontier (2024). He has also published a work of translation, Remains of Spring: A Naga Village in the No Man’s Land (2016).
