An endangered history: indigeneity, religion and politics on the borders of India, Burma and Bangladesh

Jhala, Angma Dey

It examines the transcultural, colonial history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, C. 1798-1947. This book investigates how British administrators from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth enturies used European systems of knowledge, such as botany, natural history, gender, enumerative statistics, and anthropology, to construct these indigenous communities and their landscapes.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

USD 38.75

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