Beschreibung:
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.
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.