Founding an empire on India's north-eastern frontiers, 1790-1840 : climate, commerce, polity / Gunnel Cederlöf
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TextNew Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and whiteContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199082797 (ebook) :Subject(s): India, Northeastern -- History -- 19th century | East India Company | India, Northeastern -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century | India, Northeastern -- Politics and government -- 19th century | India, Northeastern -- ClimateAdditional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 954.16031 LOC classification: DS483.7Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This is a detailed historical study of the unsettled half century from the 1790s to the 1830s when the British East India Company (EIC) strove to establish control over the colonial north-eastern frontiers spanning the River Brahmaputra to the Burmese border. It offers a much-needed reframing of regional histories of South Asia away from the sub-continental Indian mainland to the varied social ecologies of Sylhet, Cachar, Manipur, Jaintia, and Khasi hills
Includes bibliographical references and index
This is a detailed historical study of the unsettled half century from the 1790s to the 1830s when the British East India Company (EIC) strove to establish control over the colonial north-eastern frontiers spanning the River Brahmaputra to the Burmese border. It offers a much-needed reframing of regional histories of South Asia away from the sub-continental Indian mainland to the varied social ecologies of Sylhet, Cachar, Manipur, Jaintia, and Khasi hills
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