Placing the frontier in British North-East India : law, custom, and knowledge / Reeju Ray.
Author/creator |
Ray, Reeju |
Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Edition | First edition. |
Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, 2023. |
Description | xxi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online History |
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Abstract | "The book is a study of the travels of colonial law into the North-East frontier of the British Empire in India. Focusing on the nineteenth century, it examines the relationship of law and space, and indigenous place-making. Inhabitants of the frontier hills examined in this book were not defined as British subjects, yet they were incorporated within the colonial legal framework. The work examines the nature of this legal limbo that produced both the hills and their inhabitants as interruptions but equally as integral to the imperial project. Through a study of place-making by indigenous inhabitants of the frontier, it further demonstrates the heterogeneous narratives of self and belonging found in sites of orality and kinship that shape the hills in the present day."-- Back cover. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2022948855 |
ISBN | 9780192887085 (hardback) |
ISBN | (epub) |
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