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The Long Conquest: Territorialisation, Rebellion and the 'Tribe' in Eastern India, circa 1760 to 1900

Sanghamitra Misra

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
  • Publish Date: Apr 30th, 2024
  • Pages: 270
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.69in - 1.28lb
  • EAN: 9781032514611
  • Categories: Asia - South - GeneralRegional Studies

About the Author

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.