Landscape, culture, and belonging : writing the history of Northeast India / edited by Neeladri Bhattacharya, Joy L.K. Pachuau.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: English Publication details: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019Description: 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9781108481298Subject(s): Historiography | India, Northeastern -- Historiography | India, Northeastern -- History -- SourcesDDC classification: 954.10072 Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Textual Documents | Institute of Development Studies Kolkata | 954.10072 B5756l (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 8483 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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