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Becoming a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India

Becoming a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India

Misra, Sanghamitra

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Series: Transition in Northeastern India

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1138847453
ISBN13: 9781138847453
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Nov 7 2014
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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 analysis of markets as transmitters of authority highlights an important argument that the book makes. Peasantization and the introduction of the notion of the sedentary agriculturist as the productive subject also come up for a detailed discussion, along with economic change and property settlements, which are seen as important ways through which the institution of colonial legality got entrenched in the region.

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