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Founding an empire on India's north-eastern frontiers, 1790-1840 : climate, commerce, polity / Gunnel Cederlèof.
Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199082797 (ebook) :.Subject(s): India, Northeastern -- History -- 19th century | East India Company
| India, Northeastern -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century | India, Northeastern -- Politics and government -- 19th century | India, Northeastern -- ClimateAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198090571DDC classification: 954.16031 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 6, 2014).