Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)“Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)” seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories. The volume argues that these disputes arose out of older tribute, taxation and property relationships that left their territories perpetually intermixed and with ill-defined boundaries. It also seeks to describe the long-drawn-out process of territorial reordering undertaken by the British in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that set the stage for the creation of a clearly defined geographical template for the modern state in South Asia. |
Contents
Statemaking Cultures of Governance and the AngloGorkha War of 18141816 | 1 |
The Agrarian Environment and the Production of Space on the AngloGorkha Frontier | 17 |
The ChamparanTarriani Frontier | 31 |
The GorakhpurButwal Frontier | 49 |
The Disjointed Spaces of Precolonial Territorial Divisions | 67 |
Maps Surveys and Boundaries | 87 |
Conclusion | 123 |
Glossary | 129 |
Notes | 137 |
Archival Sources | 197 |
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administrative divisions agrarian entitlements Amar Singh Thapa Anglo–Gorkha frontier APAC Bengal Bettiah Bihar Binayakpur birta Boards Collections British Library Buchanan-Hamilton Butwal Butwal Tarai Cartography Champaran Champaran–Tarriani frontier Chaudhari claims Collector colonial Company officials Company’s Consl cultivation cultures of governance district East India Company Eastern Tarai eighteenth century English East India forest FS Procs geographical Gorakhpur District Gorakhpur–Butwal frontier Gorkha Gorkhali Gorkhali officials Gulmi History History of Cartography ijara instance jurisdictions kaji Kathmandu Khatri kingdom landholders Letters Issued Register linear boundaries maafi Mahottari Makwanpur maps Mughal Empire nawabs of Awadh nineteenth century Palpa Palpali pargana political possessions precolonial Provinces quanungo records Regmi rent-free Saran sarkar secretary to government Settlement Sheoraj Simraon South Asia space spatial statemaking suba subba taluqa Tanahu tappa Rautahat Tarai tenures territorial disputes territorial divisions thana Tharu Tirhut Upadhyaya UPSA villages waste lands zamindars zilla