Sanghamitra Misra

The Long Conquest (eBook, ePUB)

Territorialisation, Rebellion and the 'Tribe' in Eastern India, circa 1760 to 1900

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040024720
• Artikelnr.: 70139404

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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