"With the aid of evidence drawn mainly from the ruling households of eastern India in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book illustrates how slaves contributed to the constitution of the family and kinship. In the process, the book argues that colonial legislato…
"With the aid of evidence drawn mainly from the ruling households of eastern India in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book illustrates how slaves contributed to the constitution of the family and kinship. In the process, the book argues that colonial legislato…
This text traces the changing, long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region. Examining the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufis in the northeast, this is a story of how a modern Indian nation forgot its cosmopolitan past and ga…
This text traces the changing, long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region. Examining the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufis in the northeast, this is a story of how a modern Indian nation forgot its cosmopolitan past and ga…
This book traces the changing and long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region, that has distinct languages, faiths, monastic traditions, and lay-monk relationship, in different orders and gender and household relations. It examines the political and economic order of…