Becoming a Borderland - The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India

Informationen zum Autor Sanghamitra Misra is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sanghamitra Misra, Misra Sanghamitra
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2011
• EAN: 9780415612531
• ISBN: 978-0-415-61253-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Transition in Northeastern India
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, India, Politics & government, Politics and government, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India