Himalayan histories : economy, polity, religious traditions /
Himalayan Histories, by one of India's most reputed historians of the Himalaya, is essential for a more complete understanding of Indian history. Because Indian historians have mainly studied riverine belts and life in the plains, sophisticated mountain histories are relatively rare. In this bo...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Defining spaces, constructing identities : Regional history and the Himalaya
- Defining community : Territory and transformation in the Western Himalaya
- Geography, religion, and hegemony : Constructing the state in the Western Himalaya
- Nature, religion, and politics : Keonthal and Kumharsain
- Myth, legend, and folklore in Himalayan society
- The Dum : Community consciousness, peasant resistance, or political intrigue?
- Between two worlds : the trader pastoralists of Kinnaur
- Strategy of interdependence : Gaddi, peasant, and state
- Migration and trade in mountain societies
- Pastoralism and the making of colonial modernity in Kulu 1850-1952
- Diverse forms of polyandry, customary rights of inheritance, and landownership in the Western Himalaya
- Thresholds in the wilderness : Identities, interests and modernity in Western Himalayan borderlands
- Riverbank to hilltop : pre-colonial towns and the impact of British rule on urban growth.