Statemaking and Territory in South Asia - Lessons From the Anglo-Gorkha War (1814-1816)

Informationen zum Autor Bernardo A. Michael is an associate professor of history at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, where he is also the Special Assistant to the President and Provost, for Diversity Affairs. Klappentext This volume seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814?1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps, Plates and Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Statemaking, Cultures of Governance and the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816; Chapter 2: The Agrarian Environment and the Production of Space on the Anglo–Gorkha Frontier; Chapter 3: The Champaran–Tarriaini Frontier; Chapter 4: The Gorakhpur–Butwal Frontier; Chapter 5: The Disjointed Spaces of Precolonial Territorial Divisions; Chapter 6: Making States Legible: Maps, Surveys and Boundaries; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; Archival Sources; Bibliography; Index

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• Authors: Bernardo A. Michael, Michael Bernardo A.
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2014
• EAN: 9781783083220
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-322-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Anthem Modern South Asian Hist; Anthem South Asian Studies; Anthem Modern South Asian History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Asia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / General