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008			190722s2019 enkab b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9781108481298 _q(hbk.) _cRs. 850.00
040			_aIDSK _beng _cIDSK
041			_aeng _heng
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245	0	0	_aLandscape, culture, and belonging : _bwriting the history of Northeast India / _cedited by Neeladri Bhattacharya, Joy L.K. Pachuau.
260			_aCambridge ; _bNew York, NY : _cCambridge University Press, 2019.
300			_a343 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520	8		_aThis 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.
650		0	_2LCSH _aHistoriography. _93063
651		0	_2LCSH _aIndia, Northeastern _xHistoriography. _93064
651		0	_aIndia, Northeastern _xHistory _xSources. _93065
700	1		_aBhattacharya, Neeladri, _eeditor. _91492
700	1		_aPachuau, Joy, _d1969- _eeditor. _93066
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