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An Endangered History Indigeneity Religion: and Politics on the Borders of India Burma and Bangladesh

by Jhala Angma Dey
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780199493081
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: History
  • Publisher: Oxford UP
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 332
  • Original Price: INR 1195.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 490 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asia / South / General

An endangered history examines the transcultural, colonial history of the Chittagong Hill tracts, C. 1798–1947. This little-studied borderland region lies on the crossroads of Bangladesh, India and Burma and is inhabited by several indigenous peoples. They observe a diversity of religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, animism and Christianity; speak tibeto-burmese dialects intermixed with Persian and Bengali idioms; and practice jhum or slash-and-burn Agriculture. This book investigates how British administrators from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries used European systems of knowledge, such as Botany, natural history, gender, enumerative statistics and anthropology, to construct these indigenous communities and their landscapes. In the process, they connected the region to a dynamic, global map and classified its peoples through the reifying language of religion, linguistics, race and nation.


Angma Dey Jhala, Associate Professor, History Department, Bentley University, US

Angma Dey Jhala is an associate professor of history at Bentley University, near Boston, Massachusetts. Her work focuses on modern South Asian history and religion, with a particular emphasis on politics, gender, material culture, law and indigeneity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. Her monographs include Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India (2008) and Royal
Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India (2011). She has also edited Peacock in the Desert (2018), as well as published her work in leading journals of South Asian studies.

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