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Becoming a borderland : the politics of space and identity in colonial Northeastern India /
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 civiliza...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Transition in Northeastern India ;
2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. Beginning in the pre-colonial period where it focuses on the negotiated character of state-formation during the Mughal imperium, the book then enters the space of the colonial where it looks at some of the early interventions of the East India Company. The anal. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-229) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136197222 1136197222 |