Bodhisattva Kar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bodhisattva Kar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bodhisattva |
| FAMILY NAME | Kar |
| SIGNATURE | KAR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8839-2605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nomadic capital and speculative tribes: A culture of contracts in the Northeastern Frontier of British India
The least-garrisoned, least-mapped and formally least-administered ‘tribal frontier’ in the northeast was also the most capitalised one in the British Indian empire. In trying to make sense of this seeming paradox, this article examines the complex, and largely neglected, culture of contracts involving several communities, joint-stock companies and the frontier administration. Through a connected history of the contractual and the customary in th…
Historia Elastica: A Note on the Rubber Hunt in the North-Eastern Frontier of British India
From scattered references in government documents and contemporary academic articles, this paper constructs a rough history of the wide and largely paralegal trade in Ficus elastica, or India-rubber, across the north-eastern frontier of British India. In order to avail of the resources beyond the revenue line, nearly every rubber firm operative in the area struck numerous informal arrangements with the chiefs of the local communities through a ne…
Tongue Has No Bone’: Fixing the Assamese Language, c. 1800–c. 1930
This article deals with the politics of envisioning a vernacular for Assam proper during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Through a small, connected history of orthographic contests, grammarians’ debates and print-culture, it tries to understand the various ways in and through which the boundaries of a vernacular were drawn, policed and violated during this period. Rather than narrating the complexities of the question in terms of stab…
Nomadic capital and speculative tribes: A culture of contracts in the Northeastern Frontier of British India
The least-garrisoned, least-mapped and formally least-administered ‘tribal frontier’ in the northeast was also the most capitalised one in the British Indian empire. In trying to make sense of this seeming paradox, this article examines the complex, and largely neglected, culture of contracts involving several communities, joint-stock companies and the frontier administration. Through a connected history of the contractual and the customary in th…
Historia Elastica: A Note on the Rubber Hunt in the North-Eastern Frontier of British India
From scattered references in government documents and contemporary academic articles, this paper constructs a rough history of the wide and largely paralegal trade in Ficus elastica, or India-rubber, across the north-eastern frontier of British India. In order to avail of the resources beyond the revenue line, nearly every rubber firm operative in the area struck numerous informal arrangements with the chiefs of the local communities through a ne…
Tongue Has No Bone’: Fixing the Assamese Language, c. 1800–c. 1930
This article deals with the politics of envisioning a vernacular for Assam proper during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Through a small, connected history of orthographic contests, grammarians’ debates and print-culture, it tries to understand the various ways in and through which the boundaries of a vernacular were drawn, policed and violated during this period. Rather than narrating the complexities of the question in terms of stab…
Tongue Has No Bone’: Fixing the Assamese Language, c. 1800–c. 1930
This article deals with the politics of envisioning a vernacular for Assam proper during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Through a small, connected history of orthographic contests, grammarians’ debates and print-culture, it tries to understand the various ways in and through which the boundaries of a vernacular were drawn, policed and violated during this period. Rather than narrating the complexities of the question in terms of stab…
Historia Elastica: A Note on the Rubber Hunt in the North-Eastern Frontier of British India
From scattered references in government documents and contemporary academic articles, this paper constructs a rough history of the wide and largely paralegal trade in Ficus elastica, or India-rubber, across the north-eastern frontier of British India. In order to avail of the resources beyond the revenue line, nearly every rubber firm operative in the area struck numerous informal arrangements with the chiefs of the local communities through a ne…
Nomadic capital and speculative tribes: A culture of contracts in the Northeastern Frontier of British India
The least-garrisoned, least-mapped and formally least-administered ‘tribal frontier’ in the northeast was also the most capitalised one in the British Indian empire. In trying to make sense of this seeming paradox, this article examines the complex, and largely neglected, culture of contracts involving several communities, joint-stock companies and the frontier administration. Through a connected history of the contractual and the customary in th…
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