Becoming a borderland : the politics of space and identity in colonial Northeastern India /
Becoming a Borderland is a fresh look at how power was configure colonial times through spatial strategies. The book writes the spatial history of the western borderlands of northeastern India, focusing on its dramatic transformation within a span of a few decades, from a region with rich historical...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Series: | Transition in Northeastern India ;
2. |
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| Summary: | Becoming a Borderland is a fresh look at how power was configure colonial times through spatial strategies. The book writes the spatial history of the western borderlands of northeastern India, focusing on its dramatic transformation within a span of a few decades, from a region with rich historical connections with the surrounding polities of Tibet, Nepal, Bengal and Assam, into a fragmented zone of polities and a colonial borderland. In its interest in issues of spatial analysis which it brings to bear for the first time in the context of northeastern India, the book forms part of an emerging genre of historical writing on borderlands and foregrounds new templates of connected histories that interrogates those moments in post-colonial history writing that routinely study the local or the region as mere 'fragments'. --Book Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Series numbering appears on jacket. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 236 pages : map ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-229) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780415612531 0415612535 |