Figures -- Preface -- 1 Commercial Flows and Bounded Landscapes in between Empires -- 2 The Order and Disaster of Nature -- 3 Making 'Natural' Boundaries -- 4 The Land between Rivers -- 5 Bureaucratic Control and Its Mismatch with Nature -- 6 Commerce and War -- 7 The Fiscal Subject and the Absent Citizen -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index
