At the Margins of Empire

Empire building in British India was inseparably tied to the processes of frontier-making and the creation of boundaries. This book examines how the dynamics of frontier and boundary creation were shaped by a variety of agents.

Autorentext

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).

Inhalt

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