Landscape, culture, and belonging: writing the history of Northeast India

This collection of essays is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India. Moving away from an exclusive dependence on colonial ethnographies, the authors build their arguments on a varied range of sources: from buranjis to revenue rec...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bhattacharya, Neeladri ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn), Pachuau, Joy 1969- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2019
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Zusammenfassung:This collection of essays is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India. Moving away from an exclusive dependence on colonial ethnographies, the authors build their arguments on a varied range of sources: from buranjis to revenue records, from survey maps to explorers diaries, from missionary papers to police files. They question the givennes of the categories through which the region is usually described, and contest the stereotypes through which the people of the region are primitivized. They explore the historical processes through which the region was surveyed, mapped, understood, represented, politically governed, economically refigured, and historically constituted during the colonial period. Though focused on the experience of Northeast India, the volume also raises substantive questions about the idea of the frontier and the border, the primitive and the modern, the tribal and the settled, the local and the trans-local.
Beschreibung:343 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:9781108481298