TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bhattacharya,Neeladri
AU  - Pachuau,Joy
TI  - Landscape, culture, and belonging: writing the history of Northeast India 
SN  - 9781108481298
U1  - 954.10072 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - New York,  NY
KW  - LCSH
KW  - Historiography
KW  - India, Northeastern
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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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