Indigenous Identity in South Asia - Making Claims in the Colonial Chittagong Hill Tracts

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Raids, territorialisation, and agricultural penetration: The Chittagong Hill Tracts before and after annexation, 1760-1861 3. Police, post-raids polities and creation of an economy, 1865-1885 4. The case of the disparaged chiefs, 1891-1930 5. Last attempts to reclaim authority by the Hill elites and the making of indigeneity, 1920s-1930s 6. Political exclusion and the Tracts in the run up to partition, 1933-47 7. Conclusion

About the author

Tamina Mahmud Chowdhury received her PhD from University of Cambridge, UK. Until September 2015, she was a Research Fellow/Associate Professor at the Brac Institute of Governance and Development, Brac University, Bangladesh.

Summary

This book challenges the general perception that indigenous claims coming from the Tracts are a recent phenomenon, which emerged with the founding of the Bangladesh state.

Product details

• Authors: Tamina Chowdhury, Tamina M. Chowdhury, Tamina Mahmud Chowdhury
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780367025984
• ISBN: 978-0-367-02598-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies; Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Ethnic Studies, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Asian History, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General