
The Frontier in British India
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'The Frontier in British India is an engaging, insightful and lucid exploration of British India's Northwest and Northeast frontier regions. Drawing on a remarkable range of sources, Thomas Simpson illuminates the inconsistencies, anxieties and internal debates that characterised British colonial approaches to the frontiers of India. Going beyond conventional approaches that have emphasised the progressive systematisation of colonial attempts to govern, classify and subdue frontier territories, Simpson emphasises the significance of 'the man on the spot', the forms of personal power, authority and violence such characters exercised, and the debates they stimulated in imperial metropoles.' Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex 'Maintenance of frontiers has long been decisive in national and imperial histories. This cleverly-argued and brilliantly-illustrated study challenges such assumptions. In fascinating cases of conflict and encounter, this book demonstrates that in the highland borderlands of nineteenth-century south Asia absence of control and fluidity of command generated opportunities for trade, improvisation and negotiation. This timely history of British India's borderlands will help change images of empire and colony, and of indigenous agency and culture.' Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge '... stimulating ... This volume should appeal not just to historians of India and empire but also to students of geography and cartography.' Thomas R. Metcalf, Journal Of Interdisciplinary History '... Simpson (geography, Univ. of Cambridge, UK) combines both fields of study in this well-researched work, drawing on historical, geographical, and anthropological approaches to produce a study of northwest and northeast India that expands current understandings of this region ... This fine study balances a look at the old figures of empire with the popular notion of indigenous agency. Recommended.' R. D. Long, Choice Connect '... a fascinating insight into the dynamic processes that were at work in the eastern and western reaches of the British Indian Empire throughout its expansionary phase in the nineteenth century. This book is an important contribution to the scientific study of frontiers and the edges of sovereign administrative spaces.' Deepak Bhattasali, The PortolanMore details
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