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Statemaking and Territory in South Asia

Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)

Bernardo A Michael author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Anthem Press

Published:15th Dec '12

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Analyzes how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia, by examining the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories.

This volume 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.

“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.

ISBN: 9780857285195

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 26mm

Weight: 590g

250 pages