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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Main Author: Cederlèof, Gunnel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2014, 2014
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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