Placing the frontier in British North-East India: law, custom, and knowledge

This work is a study of the travels of colonial law into the North-East frontier of the British Empire in India. Focusing on the nineteenth century, it examines the relationship of law and space, and indigenous place-making. Inhabitants of the frontier hills examined in this book were not defined as...

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1. Verfasser: Ray, Reeju ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch Karte
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2023
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:This work is a study of the travels of colonial law into the North-East frontier of the British Empire in India. Focusing on the nineteenth century, it examines the relationship of law and space, and indigenous place-making. Inhabitants of the frontier hills examined in this book were not defined as British subjects, yet they were incorporated within the colonial legal framework. The work examines the nature of this legal limbo that produced both the hills and their inhabitants as interruptions but equally as integral to the imperial project
Beschreibung:This edition also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780191981791
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780192887085.001.0001

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