Thomas Simpson (University of Cambridge)
The Frontier in British India
Thomas Simpson (University of Cambridge)
The Frontier in British India
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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.
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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.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 316
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 466g
- ISBN-13: 9781108794121
- ISBN-10: 1108794122
- Artikelnr.: 66128001
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 316
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 466g
- ISBN-13: 9781108794121
- ISBN-10: 1108794122
- Artikelnr.: 66128001
Thomas Simpson is a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
Introduction; 1. Borders; 1.1 'Rude and complicated': the posa boundary in northern Assam; 1.2 'Making outside barbarians': the administrative border in early colonial Punjab; 1.3 'Absurd and impossible': bordering the Naga Hills District, 1866
1905; 1.4 'Breaking the border rule': Balochistan's boundaries, 1866
1892; 1.5 'Substantial pillars': marking the boundary in northern Assam during the 1870s; 1.6 'A line shifting': borders in the Chin-Lushai Hills, 1869
1900; 1.7 'As if our territory': British India's international boundaries at the turn of the twentieth century; 1.8 Conclusion: limits of the colonial state; 2. Surveys and maps; 2.1 'Getting at the truth': route surveys at nascent frontiers; 2.2 'Impossible to level': frontiers and the problem of altitude in the 1850s; 2.3 'Rough accurate maps': frontier representations as material objects; 2.4 Sites for 'sore-eyes': surveying in frontier regions from the later 1860s; 2.5 'A higher land': theorising the unknowable frontier; 2.6 Conclusion: 'Clean out of the map'; 3. Ethnography; 3.1 'Entirely distinct from the ordinary population': ethnographic encounters during the 1810s; 3.2 'Raising, not solving, doubts': the advent of Assam's 'mountain tribes', 1820s
1840s; 3.3 'Aboriginal remnants': ethnography in the time of war and annexation at the Sind and Punjab frontiers, 1830s
1850s; 3.4 'Patient, painstaking care': fragmented ethnography in northeast India during the 1870s; 3.5 'Insufficient intimacy and confidence': photographing 'frontier tribes' in the later nineteenth century; 3.6 'Purely tribal': frontiers and anthropology at the turn of the twentieth century; 3.7 Conclusion: productive problems; 4. Violence; 4.1 'Terrible to behold': violence on the Upper Sind frontier, 1839
1848; 4.2 'Often repeated outrage': state violence and the Nagas, 1838
1900; 4.3 'Few permanent results': military expeditions on the Punjab frontier, 1849
1901; 4.4 Conclusion: 'Exterminate all the brutes'; 5. Administration; 5.1 'Strangers and exiles': tribal colonies on the Upper Sind Frontier; 5.2 'Made very useful': relocating communities in northeastern Assam; 5.3 'Doing nothing but write-write-write': irregular administration at the northeast frontier; 5.4 'A rough half-subdued country': administering Balochistan, 1877
1900; 5.5 Conclusion: Fashioning fractals; Conclusion: the significance of the frontier in British India.
1905; 1.4 'Breaking the border rule': Balochistan's boundaries, 1866
1892; 1.5 'Substantial pillars': marking the boundary in northern Assam during the 1870s; 1.6 'A line shifting': borders in the Chin-Lushai Hills, 1869
1900; 1.7 'As if our territory': British India's international boundaries at the turn of the twentieth century; 1.8 Conclusion: limits of the colonial state; 2. Surveys and maps; 2.1 'Getting at the truth': route surveys at nascent frontiers; 2.2 'Impossible to level': frontiers and the problem of altitude in the 1850s; 2.3 'Rough accurate maps': frontier representations as material objects; 2.4 Sites for 'sore-eyes': surveying in frontier regions from the later 1860s; 2.5 'A higher land': theorising the unknowable frontier; 2.6 Conclusion: 'Clean out of the map'; 3. Ethnography; 3.1 'Entirely distinct from the ordinary population': ethnographic encounters during the 1810s; 3.2 'Raising, not solving, doubts': the advent of Assam's 'mountain tribes', 1820s
1840s; 3.3 'Aboriginal remnants': ethnography in the time of war and annexation at the Sind and Punjab frontiers, 1830s
1850s; 3.4 'Patient, painstaking care': fragmented ethnography in northeast India during the 1870s; 3.5 'Insufficient intimacy and confidence': photographing 'frontier tribes' in the later nineteenth century; 3.6 'Purely tribal': frontiers and anthropology at the turn of the twentieth century; 3.7 Conclusion: productive problems; 4. Violence; 4.1 'Terrible to behold': violence on the Upper Sind frontier, 1839
1848; 4.2 'Often repeated outrage': state violence and the Nagas, 1838
1900; 4.3 'Few permanent results': military expeditions on the Punjab frontier, 1849
1901; 4.4 Conclusion: 'Exterminate all the brutes'; 5. Administration; 5.1 'Strangers and exiles': tribal colonies on the Upper Sind Frontier; 5.2 'Made very useful': relocating communities in northeastern Assam; 5.3 'Doing nothing but write-write-write': irregular administration at the northeast frontier; 5.4 'A rough half-subdued country': administering Balochistan, 1877
1900; 5.5 Conclusion: Fashioning fractals; Conclusion: the significance of the frontier in British India.
Introduction; 1. Borders; 1.1 'Rude and complicated': the posa boundary in northern Assam; 1.2 'Making outside barbarians': the administrative border in early colonial Punjab; 1.3 'Absurd and impossible': bordering the Naga Hills District, 1866
1905; 1.4 'Breaking the border rule': Balochistan's boundaries, 1866
1892; 1.5 'Substantial pillars': marking the boundary in northern Assam during the 1870s; 1.6 'A line shifting': borders in the Chin-Lushai Hills, 1869
1900; 1.7 'As if our territory': British India's international boundaries at the turn of the twentieth century; 1.8 Conclusion: limits of the colonial state; 2. Surveys and maps; 2.1 'Getting at the truth': route surveys at nascent frontiers; 2.2 'Impossible to level': frontiers and the problem of altitude in the 1850s; 2.3 'Rough accurate maps': frontier representations as material objects; 2.4 Sites for 'sore-eyes': surveying in frontier regions from the later 1860s; 2.5 'A higher land': theorising the unknowable frontier; 2.6 Conclusion: 'Clean out of the map'; 3. Ethnography; 3.1 'Entirely distinct from the ordinary population': ethnographic encounters during the 1810s; 3.2 'Raising, not solving, doubts': the advent of Assam's 'mountain tribes', 1820s
1840s; 3.3 'Aboriginal remnants': ethnography in the time of war and annexation at the Sind and Punjab frontiers, 1830s
1850s; 3.4 'Patient, painstaking care': fragmented ethnography in northeast India during the 1870s; 3.5 'Insufficient intimacy and confidence': photographing 'frontier tribes' in the later nineteenth century; 3.6 'Purely tribal': frontiers and anthropology at the turn of the twentieth century; 3.7 Conclusion: productive problems; 4. Violence; 4.1 'Terrible to behold': violence on the Upper Sind frontier, 1839
1848; 4.2 'Often repeated outrage': state violence and the Nagas, 1838
1900; 4.3 'Few permanent results': military expeditions on the Punjab frontier, 1849
1901; 4.4 Conclusion: 'Exterminate all the brutes'; 5. Administration; 5.1 'Strangers and exiles': tribal colonies on the Upper Sind Frontier; 5.2 'Made very useful': relocating communities in northeastern Assam; 5.3 'Doing nothing but write-write-write': irregular administration at the northeast frontier; 5.4 'A rough half-subdued country': administering Balochistan, 1877
1900; 5.5 Conclusion: Fashioning fractals; Conclusion: the significance of the frontier in British India.
1905; 1.4 'Breaking the border rule': Balochistan's boundaries, 1866
1892; 1.5 'Substantial pillars': marking the boundary in northern Assam during the 1870s; 1.6 'A line shifting': borders in the Chin-Lushai Hills, 1869
1900; 1.7 'As if our territory': British India's international boundaries at the turn of the twentieth century; 1.8 Conclusion: limits of the colonial state; 2. Surveys and maps; 2.1 'Getting at the truth': route surveys at nascent frontiers; 2.2 'Impossible to level': frontiers and the problem of altitude in the 1850s; 2.3 'Rough accurate maps': frontier representations as material objects; 2.4 Sites for 'sore-eyes': surveying in frontier regions from the later 1860s; 2.5 'A higher land': theorising the unknowable frontier; 2.6 Conclusion: 'Clean out of the map'; 3. Ethnography; 3.1 'Entirely distinct from the ordinary population': ethnographic encounters during the 1810s; 3.2 'Raising, not solving, doubts': the advent of Assam's 'mountain tribes', 1820s
1840s; 3.3 'Aboriginal remnants': ethnography in the time of war and annexation at the Sind and Punjab frontiers, 1830s
1850s; 3.4 'Patient, painstaking care': fragmented ethnography in northeast India during the 1870s; 3.5 'Insufficient intimacy and confidence': photographing 'frontier tribes' in the later nineteenth century; 3.6 'Purely tribal': frontiers and anthropology at the turn of the twentieth century; 3.7 Conclusion: productive problems; 4. Violence; 4.1 'Terrible to behold': violence on the Upper Sind frontier, 1839
1848; 4.2 'Often repeated outrage': state violence and the Nagas, 1838
1900; 4.3 'Few permanent results': military expeditions on the Punjab frontier, 1849
1901; 4.4 Conclusion: 'Exterminate all the brutes'; 5. Administration; 5.1 'Strangers and exiles': tribal colonies on the Upper Sind Frontier; 5.2 'Made very useful': relocating communities in northeastern Assam; 5.3 'Doing nothing but write-write-write': irregular administration at the northeast frontier; 5.4 'A rough half-subdued country': administering Balochistan, 1877
1900; 5.5 Conclusion: Fashioning fractals; Conclusion: the significance of the frontier in British India.