An endangered history : indigeneity, religion, and politics on the borders of India, Burma, and Bangladesh / Angma Dey Jhala
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954.92051 MEH/B The Burning chaffees | 954.920511082 SAI/W Women, war, and the making of Bangladesh : remembering 1971 | 954.923035 MAN/C Chittagong :summer of 1930 | 954.929 ANG/E An endangered history : indigeneity, religion, and politics on the borders of India, Burma, and Bangladesh / Angma Dey Jhala | 954.930 320 92 MUR/P Prabhakaran saga:the rise and fall of an eelam warrior | 954.93 LAK/M My days in Sri Lanka | 954.93004948 SAR/A Assignment Jaffna |
An Endangered History examines the transcultural, colonial history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, c. 1798-1947. This little-studied borderland region lies on the crossroads of Bangladesh, India, and Burma and is inhabited by several indigenous peoples. They observe a diversity of religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, animism, and Christianity; speak Tibeto-Burmese dialects intermixed with Persian and Bengali idioms; and practise jhum or slash-and-burn agriculture. This book investigates how British administrators from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries used European systems of knowledge, such as botany, natural history, gender, enumerative statistics, and anthropology, to construct these indigenous communities and their landscapes. In the process, they connected the region to a dynamic, global map, and classified its peoples through the reifying language of religion, linguistics, race, and nation.
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