Founding an empire on India's north-eastern frontiers, 1790-1840 : climate, commerce, polity /

This is a detailed historical study of the unsettled half century from the 1790s to the 1830s when the British East India Company (EIC) strove to establish control over the colonial north-eastern frontiers spanning the River Brahmaputra to the Burmese border. It offers a much-needed reframing of reg...

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