Landscape, Culture, and Belonging (eBook, PDF)

Writing the History of Northeast India
Redaktion: Bhattacharya, Neeladri

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India. Moving away from an exclusive dependence on colonial ethnographies, the authors build their arguments on a varied range of sources: from buranjis to revenue records, survey maps to explorers' diaries, and missionary papers to police files. They question the givennes of the categories through which the region is usually described, and contest the stereotypes by which the people of the region are primitivized. They explore the historical processes whereby the region was surveyed, mapped, understood, represented, politically governed, economically refigured, and historically constituted during the colonial period. Though focused on the experience of Northeast India, the volume also raises substantive questions about the idea of the frontier and the border, the primitive and the modern, and the tribal and the settled, the local and the trans-local.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108753142
• Artikelnr.: 66181155

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; Introduction Neeladri Bhattacharya and Joy L. K. Pachuau;
Part I. Borders and Beyond: 1. India's spatial history in the
Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin David Ludden; 2. The Birth of the Ryot:
Rethinking the Agrarian in British Assam Bodhisattva Kar; 3. Embracing or
challenging the 'tribe'? Dilemmas in reproducing obligatory pasts in
Meghalaya Duncan McDuie-Ra; Part II. Surveys and Explorations: 4. Picturing
a region: a geographical history of British Assam David Vumlallian Zou; 5.
Geographical exploration and historical investigation: John Peter Wade in
Assam Arupjyoti Saikia; Part III. Ethnography, History and the Politics of
Representation: 6. Naga: lineages of a term Alban von Stockhausen; 7.
Representing the Nagas: negotiating national culture and consumption
Arkotong Longkumer; Part IV. Law, State and Practices of Governance: 8.
Frontier regime and colonial rule Yengkhom Jilangamba; 9. The law of
emptiness: episodes from Lushai and Chin Hills (1890-98) Anandaroop Sen;
10. The colonial state and the 'illegal' arms trade along the North-East
frontier of India, 1860s to 1900s Lipokmar Dzüvichu; Part V. Cultural
Dialogues: 11. Appropriating the Ao past in the Christian present
Lanusangla Tzüdir; 12. Why do people convert? Understanding conversions to
Christianity in Mizoram Joy L. K. Pachuau; 13. From sacred rocks to
temples: recasting religion as identity in North-East India John Thomas;
Notes on contributors; Index.