Landscape, culture, and belonging : writing the history of Northeast India

This collection of essays is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India. Moving away from an exclusive dependence on colonial ethnographies, the authors build their arguments on a varied range of sources: from buranjis to revenue rec...

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Údair Eile: Neeladri Bhattacharya,Ed, Joy L.K Pachuau
Formáid: Printed Book
Foilsithe: Cambridge CUP 2019
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Historiography.
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