Bernardo A. Michael

Statemaking and Territory in South Asia

Lessons from the Anglo-Gorkha War (1814-1816)

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814?1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780857285195
• ISBN-10: 085728519X
• Artikelnr.: 35496374

Autorenporträt

Bernardo A. Michael

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps, Plates and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Statemaking, Cultures of Governance and the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816
Chapter 2: The Agrarian Environment and the Production of Space on the Anglo–Gorkha Frontier
Chapter 3: The Champaran–Tarriaini Frontier
Chapter 4: The Gorakhpur–Butwal Frontier
Chapter 5: The Disjointed Spaces of Precolonial Territorial Divisions
Chapter 6: Making States Legible: Maps, Surveys and Boundaries
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Archival Sources
Bibliography
Index