Indigenous identity in South Asia : making claims in the colonial Chittagong Hill Tracts / Tamina M. Chowdhury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chowdhury, Tamina M., author.

Series:

Routledge advances in South Asian studies ; 33.

Routledge advances in South Asian studies ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Autonomy and independence movements.

Indigenous peoples.

Ethnicity.

Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh : Region)--History.

Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh : Region).

Indigenous peoples--Bangladesh--Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region)--Ethnic identity.

Bangladesh--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Bangladesh.

Indigenous peoples--Ethnic identity.

Bangladesh--Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region).

Physical Description:

xi, 198 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Contents:

Raids, territorialisation, and agricultural penetration : the Chittagong Hill Tracts before and after annexation, 1760-1861

Police, post-raids polities and creation of an economy, 1865-1885

The case of the disparaged chiefs, 1891-1930

Last attempts to reclaim authority by the hill elites and the making of indigeneity, 1920s-1930s

Political exclusion and the tracts in the run up to partition, 1933-47

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138673434

1138673439

OCLC:

964594624

Publisher Number:

40026642410