TY - BOOK AU - Cederlèof,Gunnel TI - Founding an empire on India's north-eastern frontiers, 1790-1840: climate, commerce, polity SN - 9780199082797 (ebook) : AV - DS483.7 U1 - 954.16031 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - East India Company KW - India, Northeastern KW - Commerce KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Politics and government KW - Climate N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198090571.001.0001 ER -