A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sunnuds Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries, Compiled by C.U. Aitchison, Revised and Continued by A.C. Talbot. [With] an Index, Compiled by M. Belletty


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This comprehensive collection of treaties, engagements, and sunnuds provides a detailed record of the political and diplomatic relations between the British Raj in India and its neighboring countries. Compiled by C.U. Aitchison and revised and continued by A.C. Talbot with an index compiled by M. Belletty, this book is an essential resource for scholars and researchers of South Asian history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.







Landscape, Culture, and Belonging


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This 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.










B.H. Blackwell


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