Becoming a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India

by Sanghamitra Misra

Book Overview

This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges as fragments, this book sees these perspectives as continuing to be entrapped in a civilizational approach to history writing. Beginning in the pre-colonial period where it focuses on the negotiated character of state-formation during the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138847453
• ISBN13: 9781138847453
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"