Statemaking and territory in South Asia : lessons from the Anglo-Gorkha War (1814-1816)
Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the AngloGorkha War (18141816) seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the AngloGorkha War of 18141816 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
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1 online resource (xviii, 232 Seiten)
9780857285324, 9780857285195, 0857285327, 085728519X
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Statemaking, Cultures of Governance and the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-1816
The Agrarian Environment and the Production of Space on the Anglo-Gorkha Frontier
The Champarani-Tarriani Frontier
The Gorakhpur-Butwal Frontier
The Disjointed Spaces of Precolonial Territorial Divisions
Making States Visible : Maps, Surveys and Boundaries
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