At the Margins of Empire

Frontiers and Boundaries in British India
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-02730-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Reihe: Empire and Frontiers

Empire building in British India was inseparably tied to the processes of frontier-making and the creation of boundaries. Through a range of complex practices and developments, the constitution of these spaces took shape at various historical conjunctures. The making of these spaces was also shaped by a variety of imperial concerns, including local and global processes, connections, and entanglements. Focusing on the period between the 19th and the early 20th centuries, this book looks at how the dynamics of frontier and boundary creation were shaped by a variety of agents, institutions, infrastructure and technologies, events, economy, travel, forms of representation, and imperial rivalries. The role of capital, war, and violence was also intrinsic to the creation of such spaces. Further, societies in these spaces responded to these processes in various ways. The book examines how they negotiated and mediated these complex developments of modern space-making in multiple ways at the margins of empire.

Part of the Empire and Frontiers series, this book will be of interest to researchers and readers of history, anthropology, cultural studies, social and cultural history, frontiers, boundaries and borderland studies, Himalayan studies, and studies of commodities and circulations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dzüvichü, Lipokmar

Baruah, Manjeet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: At the Imperial Edges: Producing Frontiers, Making Boundaries Part I: Economy, People, Frontier Geographies Chapter 1:  The Hanging of Siddhoo Koli: Tracing Subaltern Lives in the Early Colonial Himalaya, c. 1815-45 Chapter 2: Dynamic Trades, Shifting Geographies: Commerce in the North East frontier of British India Part II: War, Travel, Representation Chapter 3: The River Sutlej as Frontier at the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46) in the Personal Chronicle of Prussian Prince Waldemar Chapter 4: The Great Indian Desert in Colonial and Nomadic Narratives of Travel Part III: Imperial Politics, Peripheries, Frontier Governance Chapter 5: Assam, Tibet and the Great Game: Imperial Geo-Politics in the Himalayas in the Long Nineteenth Century Chapter 6: Policymaking and the Political-military Interface on the Periphery of Empire: The Battle for Waziristan in the Early 1920s Part IV: Infrastructure, Connectivity, Frontier Making Chapter 7: Infrastructural Contingencies and Contingent Sovereignties on the Indo–Afghan Frontier Chapter 8: The Making of a Defence Frontier: World War Two and British India's North East

Über Autor(innen)

Lipokmar Dzüvichü is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His research work covers themes on history of frontiers and borderlands, transport history, history of goods and circulation, labour history, history of modern infrastructure, and visual history.

Manjeet Baruah is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His research work covers themes on literary and cultural history; study of space and text; colonialism; and the study of frontiers and borderlands. His most recent published book is Hunter, Peasant, Rebel: Colonialism and the British Assam Frontier (2024). He has also published a work of translation, Remains of Spring: A Naga Village in the No Man’s Land (2016).