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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 records, survey maps to explorers' diaries, and missionary papers to police files. They question the givennes of the categories through which the region is usually described, and contest the stereotypes by which the people of the region are primitivized. They explore the historical processes whereby the region was surveyed, mapped, understood, represented, politically governed, economically refigured, and historically constituted during the colonial period. Though focused on the experience of Northeast India, the volume also raises substantive questions about the idea of the frontier and the border, the primitive and the modern, and the tribal and the settled, the local and the trans-local.

India, Northeastern --- Northeast India --- Northeastern India --- Historiography. --- History

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The Camera as Witness lifts the veil off the little known world of Mizoram and challenges - through unpublished photographs - core assumptions in the writing of India's national history. The pictures in the book establish the transformation of this society and the many forms of modernity that have emerged in it. It emphasises how 'indigenous people' in Mizoram used cameras to produce distinct modern identities and represent themselves to themselves, consistently contesting outsiders' imaginations of them as isolated, backward and in need of upliftment. The authors demonstrate how mostly amateur photographers used visual images to document a historical trajectory of heady change and continual reinvention, producing distinct modern identities. By virtue of its use of visual sources and its engagement with a wide range of important discourses, this book is relevant for students, historians, social scientists, political activists and general readers looking for a fresh approach to Northeast India.

Mizoram (India)--Civilization. --- Mizoram (India)--Civilization--Pictorial works. --- Mizoram (India)--History--19th century. --- Mizoram (India)--History--19th century--Pictorial works. --- Mizoram (India)--Social conditions--Pictorial works. --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- South Asia --- Mizoram (India) --- Mijorāma (India) --- Lushai Hills District (India) --- Mizo District (India) --- Mizo Hills District (India) --- Mizo (India) --- History --- Civilization. --- Civilization --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions --- Social life and customs. --- Social life and customs

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Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces traces movements and connections in a region known for its formidable obstacles to mobility. Eight original essays and a conceptual introduction engage with questions of networks and interconnection between people across a bordered landscape. Mobility among the extremely varied ecologies of south-western China, Myanmar and north-eastern India, with their rugged terrain, high mountains, monsoon-fed rivers and marshy lowlands, is certainly subject to friction. But today, harsh political realities have created hard borders and fractured this trans-Himalayan terrain. However, the closely researched chapters in this book demonstrate that these borders have not prevented an abundance of movements, connections and flows. Mobility has always coexisted with friction here, but this coexistence has been unsettled, giving this space its historical shape and its contemporary dynamism. Introducing the concept of the ‘corridor’ as an analytical framework, this collection investigates mobility and flows in this unique socio-political landscape.

Culture diffusion --- HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia. --- borderlands, mobility, networks, Trans-Himalayas, Asia, histories of the India-China corridor (Southwest Silk Road). --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Culture --- Social change