Founding an empire on India's north-eastern frontiers, 1790-1840 climate, commerce, polity
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 reg...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi
Oxford University Press
2014, 2014
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| ISBN: | 9780199082797 |