1st Edition
The Long Conquest Territorialisation, Rebellion and the 'Tribe' in Eastern India, circa 1760 to 1900
By Sanghamitra Misra
Copyright 2024
286 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
286 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
286 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
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This book is an enquiry into the elision of the figure of the sovereign, cotton-producing Garo in the colonial archive and its savage transformation into imperialism’s quintessential ‘primitive’ in the period between 1760 CE and 1900 CE.
The precolonial political economy of hill cotton produced by the Garos, its unhinging from the exercise of Garo sovereignty and its eventual commodification... Read more
Introduction 1. At the cusp of Company rule: Garo Cotton and Sovereignty 2. The Figure of the Insurgent: the Garo Peasant Rebel 3. The Customs of Conquest: Legal Primitivism and British Paramountcy 4. The Apportionment of Sovereignty: The Duars and Gird Garo 5. Becoming ‘Primitive’ under Colonial Modernity. Epilogue: Perceiving Absence
Biography
Sanghamitra Misra is Professor of Modern Indian History at the Department of History, University of Delhi, India. She researches the intersecting dimensions of economic and legal history in the context of conquest, colonization, ‘primitivism’ and resistance. She has authored Becoming a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India (Routledge, 2011) and several articles in academic journals.
