The Frontier in British India - Couverture souple

Simpson, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108794122 ISBN 13 : 9781108794121

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Thomas Simpson provides an innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of colonial India during the nineteenth century. Through critical interventions in a wide range of theoretical and historiographical fields, he speaks to historians of empire and science, anthropologists, and geographers alike. The Frontier in British India provides the first connected and comparative analysis of frontiers in northwest and northeast India and draws on visual and written materials from an array of archives across the subcontinent and the UK. Colonial interventions in frontier spaces and populations were, it shows, enormously destructive but also prone to confusion and failure on their own terms. British frontier administrators did not merely suffer 'turbulent' frontiers, but actively worked to generate and uphold these regions as spaces of governmental and scientific exception. Accordingly, India's frontiers became crucial spaces of imperial practice and imagination throughout the nineteenth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Simpson is a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108794122
• ISBN 13: 9781108794121
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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