Annexation and the Unhappy Valley

The Historical Anthropology of Sindh's Colonization
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29366-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

Annexation and the Unhappy Valley: The Historical Anthropology of Sindh’s Colonizationaddresses the nineteenth century expansion and consolidation of British colonial power in the Sindh region of South Asia. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach and employs a fine-grained, nuanced and situated reading of multiple agents and their actions. It explores how the political and administrative incorporation of territory (i.e., annexation) by East India Company informs the conversion of intra-cultural distinctions into socio-historical conflicts among the colonized and colonizers. The book focuses on colonial direct rule, rather than the more commonly studied indirect rule, of South Asia. It socio-culturally explores how agents, perspectives and intentions vary—both within and across regions—to impact the actions and structures of colonial governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Matthew A

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor’s Foreword. viii
A Note on the Spelling of Sindh. xi
Cast of Characters and Glossary. xii
Illustrations. xvi
Acknowledgements. xxiv

Introduction. 1

1 Merchants and the East India Company in Sindh. 21

2 Conspiracy and Military-Fiscalism. 69

3 Just Governance and Colonial Violence. 133

4 Court Over Board. 180

Afterword. 224

Appendix: Anthropology, Context and Archives. 229
Bibliography. 241
Index. 255

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew A. Cook, Ph.D (2007) in Sociocultural Anthropology, Columbia University, is Professor of South Asian and Postcolonial Studies at North Carolina Central University. His research focuses on the history and anthropology of South Asia, Sindh and colonialism. His previous publications include: Willoughby’s Minute: Treaty of Nownahar, Fraud and British Sindh (Oxford University Press, 2013), Observing Sindh: Selected Reports of Edward Paterson Del Hoste (Oxford University Press, 2008), and, with Michel Boivin, Interpreting the Sindhi World: Essays on Society and History (Oxford University Press, 2010).