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: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781783083220
• ISBN-10: 1783083220
• Artikelnr.: 41375066

Autorenporträt

Bernardo A. Michael is an associate professor of history at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, where he is also the Special Assistant to the President and Provost, for Diversity Affairs.

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