1st Edition
Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia Between the Mekong and the Indus
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: objects of frontiers
LIPOKMAR DZÜVICHÜ AND MANJEET BARUAH
Part I: Commodities, resource frontiers, and state making
1 Trans-Indus salt: objects, resistance, and violence in the North-West Frontier of British India
SAMEETAH AGHA
2 ‘Objects’ of appropriations: locating material efficacies of rubber in the northeastern resource frontier of British India, 1810–1906
APARAJITA MAJUMDAR
3 Tibetan materiality versus British ‘Ornamentalism’: diplomacy, objects, and resistance in the imperial archive EMMA MARTIN
Part II: Networks, things, and violence
4 From highlands to lowlands: the Pu‘er tea trading network and ethnic-group interactions in the frontier of Yunnan (1662–1796)
KUNBING XIAO
5 Embracing the black and white gold: the shift and continuity of the core objects in the tropical Yunnan borderlands
DIANA ZHIDAN DUAN
6 Guns, gifts, and guerrillas: knowledge and objects during World War II in the Indo–Myanmar (Burma) frontier
ADITYA KIRAN KAKATI
Part III: Regions, cultures, and connections
7 A spot of enlightenment: tea as a fuel for connectivity in Himalayan Buddhist cultures
KALZANG DORJEE BHUTIA and AMY HOLMES-TAGCHUNGDARPA
8 Objects in the border poetry of North East India and Southwest China
MARK BENDER
Afterword: the flow of objects at the political edges: a postscript
GUNNEL CEDERLÖF
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Lipokmar Dzüvichü is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research work covers themes on frontiers and borderlands, transport, and labour history, including the history of commodities and circulation, in the nineteenth and early twentieth century North East Frontier of British India.
Manjeet Baruah is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research areas include history of space and text, translation and borderland, and history and culture of colonial resource regimes in North East India. His published works include Frontier Cultures: A Social History of Assamese Literature (2012) and a work of translation, Remains of Spring: A Naga Village in the No Man’s Land (2016).
