Himalayan histories : economy, polity, religious traditions /
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Author / Creator: | Singh, Chetan, author. |
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Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019] |
Description: | xi, 303 pages ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | SUNY series in Hindu studies SUNY series in Hindu studies. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11802482 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Defining Spaces, Constructing Identities: Regional History and the Himalaya
- 3. Defining Community: Territory and Transformation in the Western Himalaya
- 4. Geography, Religion, and Hegemony: Constructing the State in the Western Himalaya
- 5. Nature, Religion, and Politics: Keonthal and Kumharsain
- 6. Myth, Legend, and Folklore in Himalayan Society
- 7. The Dum: Community Consciousness, Peasant Resistance, or Political Intrigue?
- 8. Between Two Worlds: The Trader Pastoralists of Kinnaur
- 9. Strategy of Interdependence: Gaddi, Peasant, and State
- 10. Migration and Trade in Mountain Societies
- 11. Pastoralism and the Making of Colonial Modernity in Kulu, 1850-1952
- 12. Diverse Forms of Polyandry, Customary Rights of Inheritance, and Landownership in the Western Himalaya
- 13. Thresholds in the Wilderness: Identities, Interests, and Modernity in Western Himalayan Borderlands
- 14. Riverbank to Hilltop: Pre-colonial Towns and the Impact of British Rule on Urban Growth
- Bibliography
- Index