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This book is about the entanglements of colonial law, space, and place, in regions defined as frontiers in British India.
Author : Reeju Ray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2023-03-30
Category :
ISBN : 0192887084
This book is about the entanglements of colonial law, space, and place, in regions defined as frontiers in British India.
Author : Robert Boileau Pemberton
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 1835
Category : British
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Simpson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108840191
An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of British India. Thomas Simpson considers the role of frontier officials as surveyors, cartographers and ethnographers, military violence in frontier regions and the impact of the frontier experience on colonial administration.
Author : Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Simpson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108882099
Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India during the nineteenth century. Through critical interventions in a wide range of theoretical and historiographical fields, he speaks to historians of empire and science, anthropologists, and geographers alike. The Frontier in British India provides the first connected and comparative analysis of frontiers in northwest and northeast India and draws on visual and written materials from an array of archives across the subcontinent and the UK. Colonial interventions in frontier spaces and populations were, it shows, enormously destructive but also prone to confusion and failure on their own terms. British frontier administrators did not merely suffer 'turbulent' frontiers, but actively worked to generate and uphold these regions as spaces of governmental and scientific exception. Accordingly, India's frontiers became crucial spaces of imperial practice and imagination throughout the nineteenth century.
Author : Manilal Bose
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Arunāchal Pradesh (India)
ISBN : 9788180694196
Author : Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1108046061
An extensive and authoritative report from 1884, written by a civil servant in Bengal during the British colonisation of India.
Author : Dr.Kharingpam Ahum Chahong
Publisher : SLC India Publisher
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release :
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8196295677
"Re-Imagining Northeast Writings and Narratives: Language, Culture, and Border Identity" presents a collaborative effort to critically examine the concept of Northeast India, focusing on its linguistic, geographical, cultural, and social dimensions. Through a compilation of articles and essays, the volume delves into various aspects such as language, literature, culture, challenges, and the complexities of identity within the region. Each contribution offers detailed insights and findings, enhancing our understanding of Northeast India's diverse cultural landscape and the experiences of its people. By addressing themes of spatiality, movement, and responses to representations of the Northeast, the volume aims to deepen scholarly engagement with the region and stimulate discourse on its unique linguistic, cultural, and border dynamics. It serves as a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, and anyone interested in gaining a nuanced understanding of Northeast India and its intricate interplay of language, culture, and identity.
Author : Brandon Douglas Marsh
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 33,36 MB
Release : 2009
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ISBN :
This study examines the relationship between British perceptions and policies regarding India's North-West Frontier and its Pathan inhabitants and the decline of British power in the subcontinent from 1919 to 1947. Its central argument is that two key constituencies within the framework of British India, the officers of the Indian Army and the Indian Political Service, viewed the Frontier as the most crucial region within Britain's Indian Empire. Generations of British officers believed that this was the one place in India where the British could suffer a "knockout blow" from either external invasion or internal revolt. In light of this, when confronted by a full-scale Indian nationalist movement after the First World War, the British sought to seal off the Frontier from the rest of India. Confident that they had inoculated the Frontier against nationalism, the British administration on the Frontier carried on as if it were 30 years earlier, fretting about possible Soviet expansion, tribal raids, and Afghan intrigues. This emphasis on external menaces proved costly, however, as it blinded the British to local discontent and the rapid growth of a Frontier nationalist movement by the end of the 1920s. When the Frontier administration belatedly realized that they faced a homegrown nationalist movement they responded with a combination of institutional paralysis and brutality that underscored the British belief that the region constituted the primary bulwark of the British Raj. This violence proved counterproductive. It engendered wide-scale nationalist interest in the Frontier and effectively made British policy in the region a subject of All-Indian political debate. The British responded to mounting nationalist pressure in the 1930s by placing the Frontier at the center of their successful efforts to retain control of India's defence establishment. This was a short-lived stopgap, however. By the last decade of British rule much of the Frontier was under the administration of the Indian National Congress. Moreover, the British not only concluded that Indian public opinion must be taken into account when formulating policy, but that nationalist prescriptions for the "problem" of the North-West Frontier should be enacted.
Author : Robert Boileau Pemberton
Publisher :
Page : 1308 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Burma
ISBN :