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Becoming a Borderland The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India
By Sanghamitra Misra
Copyright 2011
248 Pages
by
Routledge India
250 Pages
by
Routledge India
248 Pages
by
Routledge India
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
Sanghamitra Misra is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi.
