The Long Conquest

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This book is an inquiry into the elision of the figure of the sovereign, cotton producing Garo in the colonial archive and its savage transformation into imperialism’s quintessential ‘primitive’ in the period between 1760 CE and 1900 CE.

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ISBN-13: 9781032619156
ISBN-10: 1032619155
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Routledge India

Cuprins

Introduction 1. At the cusp of Company rule: Garo Cotton and Sovereignty 2. The Figure of the Insurgent: the Garo Peasant Rebel 3. The Customs of Conquest: Legal Primitivism and British Paramountcy 4. The Apportionment of Sovereignty: The Duars and Gird Garo 5. Becoming ‘Primitive’ under Colonial Modernity. Epilogue: Perceiving Absence

Notă biografică

Sanghamitra Misra is Professor of Modern Indian History at the Department of History, University of Delhi, India. She researches the intersecting dimensions of economic and legal history in the context of conquest, colonization, ‘primitivism’ and resistance. She has authored Becoming a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India (Routledge, 2011) and several articles in academic journals.

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