Angma Dey Jhala
Biographic Data
| ID | 454611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angma Dey Jhala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angma Dey |
| FAMILY NAME | Jhala |
| SIGNATURE | JHALA A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bentley University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1662-1691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Forgotten Voices of the British Empire
Carol Ann Boshier's book Forgotten Voices of the British Empire is a welcome new history of British India. Examining several engaging case studies of colonial administrator scholars, Boshier delves into the meandering and circuitous paths through which colonial knowledge was formed, paths that often “transcended spatial, temporal, material and methodological limitations” (xii). Covering a broad period from the seventeenth-century East India Compa…
Dam(n)ing the hills
In the late 1950s, work began on the Kaptai hydroelectric dam, a massive project in the verdant Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), an area bordering northeast India, east Pakistan (today Bangladesh), and Burma (now Myanmar), largely populated by indigenous hill communities. At the time, the CHT was situated in newly created East Pakistan, and Kaptai had become a focal site for the development of hydroelectric power. In the process, Pakistan relied upo…
Farming and Eating in an Indigenous Asian Borderland
This article examines the botanical, agricultural and food history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, which lie on the borders of India, east Bengal (now Bangladesh) and Burma (contemporary Myanmar), under British colonialism and postcolonial transnationalism. European administrators were intrigued by jhumming (swidden agriculture) and the botanical biodiversity of the region. The article examines jhum production and food history in the writings of B…
‘Promiscuous’ Planting
During the eighteenth century, the travelogue flourished as a genre and was used to describe peoples both familiar and unfamiliar to the western observer. Chapter 1 examines one such account, the 1798 travelogue of the Scottish doctor Francis Buchanan in the CHT. In his tour diary, he deployed the language of natural history to describe not only the region’s unusual soil quality, topography, and local jhum or swidden agriculture, but also the rel…
‘Beware Oh Petticoats! There Be Leeches in These Parts’
This chapter critiques the voluminous published and unpublished writings of Thomas H. Lewin, the first British deputy commissioner and would-be ethnographer of the CHT during the 1860s and 1870s. He had complex and, at times quixotic, views on indigenous history and the limits and nature of colonial intervention. In particular, this chapter interprets Lewin’s writings through the lens of gender and sexuality, by analyzing his interactions with bo…
Measuring Tribal ‘Otherness’
The chapter examines the role of enumerative data in defining identity and ethnicity during the late colonial period. Focussing on two surveys of the CHT from 1876 and 1909 by W.W. Hunter and R.H. Sneyd Hutchinson respectively, it investigates how the census created standardized labels, relating to religion, tribe, and caste, which often undermined the region’s porous border-crossing, interethnic, and interreligious history. It reveals the inhere…
An Endangered History
An Endangered History is an account of the little-studied region of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of British-governed Bengal from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. The CHT lie on the crossroads of India, east Bengal (now Bangladesh), and Burma (contemporary Myanmar). An area of lush rivers and fertile valleys, it has historically been celebrated for its haunting natural beauty and religious heterodoxy, from the chronicles of …
The Scandalous Case of the Rani of Lathi
In 1922, the recently widowed Rani and regent of Lathi state in peninsular Kathiawar took a lover and fled to Bombay, astounding her fellow Indian princes as well as local British political administrators. She was accused of murdering her husband, abusing her royal powers, and illegally leaving her state. By stepping beyond the walls of the sequestered palace interior and in travelling from princely state to British India, the Rani of Lathi trans…
Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India
Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana – the female quarters of the Indic home or palace – this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Home and the World
This article examines the cosmopolitan world of the colonialzenanathrough the marriages of two mid-twentieth-century royal Indian women, Maharani Brijraj Kumari of Dhrangadhra and Maharani Krishna Kumari of Jodhpur. In particular, it analyses the close connection betweenzenanawomen's education and emergent adolescent sexuality. These women ordinarily began their studies in mixed-gender classrooms with their brothers and male cousins as children. …
Daughters of the Hills
This article examines the turbulent twentieth-century history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of East Bengal through the cosmopolitan life stories of Rani Benita Roy of the Buddhist Chakma Raj and her daughters, c. 1900–1972. These accounts address questions of women's education, religious conversion, marriage, migration and subsequent immigration against the broader canvas of colonialism, post-colonial nation-state building and tribal identi…
Harem Histories
Reviewed by: Harem Histories: Envisioning places and living spaces Angma Jhala Harem Histories: Envisioning places and living spaces Marilyn Booth, ed. Durham & New York: Duke University Press, 2010. In Harem Histories, editor Marilyn Booth has compiled an innovative and multidisciplinary volume on the historical “concept/institution/image” of the harem in the Middle East and North Africa (4). Based in part upon the proceedings of a 2004 conferen…
Shifting the gaze
This article will examine depictions of the zenana and pardah in Hindi and Euro-American cinema. The zenana was the ‘women's courts’ or ‘female quarters of the palace’ in Indian princely states where aristocratic and royal women, as well as their attendants, lived behind pardah (literally translating as the ‘veil’ or ‘curtain’) in partial seclusion. Until India's Independence, there were between five and six hundred semi-autonomous kingdoms or pr…
The Jodhpur regency
In 1952, Maharani Krishna Kumari of Jodhpur was widowed at the untimely age of 26, and her son, the heir apparent Gaj Singh II, was only 4 years old. Although the princely states had nominally lapsed after 1947, Krishna Kumari was inaugurated as regent during her son's minority, following a policy that had long been practised by Indian royal families. She would subsequently oversee his education during the 1950s and 1960s, adroitly using the coun…
The Malabar Hill murder trial of 1925
This article seeks to address issues relating to sovereignty, law and sexual politics in colonial princely India through an examination of the Malabar Hill Murder Trial of 1925 in the Bombay High Court. In this particular case, the Hindu Maratha Maharaja of Indore was charged with the murder of his Muslim courtesan's lover. The ensuing trial illuminates two important developments in late colonial Indian law. First, it reveals how British courts e…
Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India
Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana – the female quarters of the Indic home or palace – this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Dam(n)ing the hills
In the late 1950s, work began on the Kaptai hydroelectric dam, a massive project in the verdant Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), an area bordering northeast India, east Pakistan (today Bangladesh), and Burma (now Myanmar), largely populated by indigenous hill communities. At the time, the CHT was situated in newly created East Pakistan, and Kaptai had become a focal site for the development of hydroelectric power. In the process, Pakistan relied upo…
Daughters of the Hills
This article examines the turbulent twentieth-century history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of East Bengal through the cosmopolitan life stories of Rani Benita Roy of the Buddhist Chakma Raj and her daughters, c. 1900–1972. These accounts address questions of women's education, religious conversion, marriage, migration and subsequent immigration against the broader canvas of colonialism, post-colonial nation-state building and tribal identi…
Farming and Eating in an Indigenous Asian Borderland
This article examines the botanical, agricultural and food history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, which lie on the borders of India, east Bengal (now Bangladesh) and Burma (contemporary Myanmar), under British colonialism and postcolonial transnationalism. European administrators were intrigued by jhumming (swidden agriculture) and the botanical biodiversity of the region. The article examines jhum production and food history in the writings of B…
An Endangered History
An Endangered History is an account of the little-studied region of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of British-governed Bengal from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. The CHT lie on the crossroads of India, east Bengal (now Bangladesh), and Burma (contemporary Myanmar). An area of lush rivers and fertile valleys, it has historically been celebrated for its haunting natural beauty and religious heterodoxy, from the chronicles of …
Home and the World
This article examines the cosmopolitan world of the colonialzenanathrough the marriages of two mid-twentieth-century royal Indian women, Maharani Brijraj Kumari of Dhrangadhra and Maharani Krishna Kumari of Jodhpur. In particular, it analyses the close connection betweenzenanawomen's education and emergent adolescent sexuality. These women ordinarily began their studies in mixed-gender classrooms with their brothers and male cousins as children. …
The Jodhpur regency
In 1952, Maharani Krishna Kumari of Jodhpur was widowed at the untimely age of 26, and her son, the heir apparent Gaj Singh II, was only 4 years old. Although the princely states had nominally lapsed after 1947, Krishna Kumari was inaugurated as regent during her son's minority, following a policy that had long been practised by Indian royal families. She would subsequently oversee his education during the 1950s and 1960s, adroitly using the coun…
The Malabar Hill murder trial of 1925
This article seeks to address issues relating to sovereignty, law and sexual politics in colonial princely India through an examination of the Malabar Hill Murder Trial of 1925 in the Bombay High Court. In this particular case, the Hindu Maratha Maharaja of Indore was charged with the murder of his Muslim courtesan's lover. The ensuing trial illuminates two important developments in late colonial Indian law. First, it reveals how British courts e…
The Malabar Hill murder trial of 1925
This article seeks to address issues relating to sovereignty, law and sexual politics in colonial princely India through an examination of the Malabar Hill Murder Trial of 1925 in the Bombay High Court. In this particular case, the Hindu Maratha Maharaja of Indore was charged with the murder of his Muslim courtesan's lover. The ensuing trial illuminates two important developments in late colonial Indian law. First, it reveals how British courts e…
The Jodhpur regency
In 1952, Maharani Krishna Kumari of Jodhpur was widowed at the untimely age of 26, and her son, the heir apparent Gaj Singh II, was only 4 years old. Although the princely states had nominally lapsed after 1947, Krishna Kumari was inaugurated as regent during her son's minority, following a policy that had long been practised by Indian royal families. She would subsequently oversee his education during the 1950s and 1960s, adroitly using the coun…
Shifting the gaze
This article will examine depictions of the zenana and pardah in Hindi and Euro-American cinema. The zenana was the ‘women's courts’ or ‘female quarters of the palace’ in Indian princely states where aristocratic and royal women, as well as their attendants, lived behind pardah (literally translating as the ‘veil’ or ‘curtain’) in partial seclusion. Until India's Independence, there were between five and six hundred semi-autonomous kingdoms or pr…
Daughters of the Hills
This article examines the turbulent twentieth-century history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of East Bengal through the cosmopolitan life stories of Rani Benita Roy of the Buddhist Chakma Raj and her daughters, c. 1900–1972. These accounts address questions of women's education, religious conversion, marriage, migration and subsequent immigration against the broader canvas of colonialism, post-colonial nation-state building and tribal identi…
Harem Histories
Reviewed by: Harem Histories: Envisioning places and living spaces Angma Jhala Harem Histories: Envisioning places and living spaces Marilyn Booth, ed. Durham & New York: Duke University Press, 2010. In Harem Histories, editor Marilyn Booth has compiled an innovative and multidisciplinary volume on the historical “concept/institution/image” of the harem in the Middle East and North Africa (4). Based in part upon the proceedings of a 2004 conferen…
Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India
Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana – the female quarters of the Indic home or palace – this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Home and the World
This article examines the cosmopolitan world of the colonialzenanathrough the marriages of two mid-twentieth-century royal Indian women, Maharani Brijraj Kumari of Dhrangadhra and Maharani Krishna Kumari of Jodhpur. In particular, it analyses the close connection betweenzenanawomen's education and emergent adolescent sexuality. These women ordinarily began their studies in mixed-gender classrooms with their brothers and male cousins as children. …
The Scandalous Case of the Rani of Lathi
In 1922, the recently widowed Rani and regent of Lathi state in peninsular Kathiawar took a lover and fled to Bombay, astounding her fellow Indian princes as well as local British political administrators. She was accused of murdering her husband, abusing her royal powers, and illegally leaving her state. By stepping beyond the walls of the sequestered palace interior and in travelling from princely state to British India, the Rani of Lathi trans…
‘Promiscuous’ Planting
During the eighteenth century, the travelogue flourished as a genre and was used to describe peoples both familiar and unfamiliar to the western observer. Chapter 1 examines one such account, the 1798 travelogue of the Scottish doctor Francis Buchanan in the CHT. In his tour diary, he deployed the language of natural history to describe not only the region’s unusual soil quality, topography, and local jhum or swidden agriculture, but also the rel…
‘Beware Oh Petticoats! There Be Leeches in These Parts’
This chapter critiques the voluminous published and unpublished writings of Thomas H. Lewin, the first British deputy commissioner and would-be ethnographer of the CHT during the 1860s and 1870s. He had complex and, at times quixotic, views on indigenous history and the limits and nature of colonial intervention. In particular, this chapter interprets Lewin’s writings through the lens of gender and sexuality, by analyzing his interactions with bo…
Measuring Tribal ‘Otherness’
The chapter examines the role of enumerative data in defining identity and ethnicity during the late colonial period. Focussing on two surveys of the CHT from 1876 and 1909 by W.W. Hunter and R.H. Sneyd Hutchinson respectively, it investigates how the census created standardized labels, relating to religion, tribe, and caste, which often undermined the region’s porous border-crossing, interethnic, and interreligious history. It reveals the inhere…
An Endangered History
An Endangered History is an account of the little-studied region of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of British-governed Bengal from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. The CHT lie on the crossroads of India, east Bengal (now Bangladesh), and Burma (contemporary Myanmar). An area of lush rivers and fertile valleys, it has historically been celebrated for its haunting natural beauty and religious heterodoxy, from the chronicles of …
Farming and Eating in an Indigenous Asian Borderland
This article examines the botanical, agricultural and food history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, which lie on the borders of India, east Bengal (now Bangladesh) and Burma (contemporary Myanmar), under British colonialism and postcolonial transnationalism. European administrators were intrigued by jhumming (swidden agriculture) and the botanical biodiversity of the region. The article examines jhum production and food history in the writings of B…
Dam(n)ing the hills
In the late 1950s, work began on the Kaptai hydroelectric dam, a massive project in the verdant Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), an area bordering northeast India, east Pakistan (today Bangladesh), and Burma (now Myanmar), largely populated by indigenous hill communities. At the time, the CHT was situated in newly created East Pakistan, and Kaptai had become a focal site for the development of hydroelectric power. In the process, Pakistan relied upo…
Forgotten Voices of the British Empire
Carol Ann Boshier's book Forgotten Voices of the British Empire is a welcome new history of British India. Examining several engaging case studies of colonial administrator scholars, Boshier delves into the meandering and circuitous paths through which colonial knowledge was formed, paths that often “transcended spatial, temporal, material and methodological limitations” (xii). Covering a broad period from the seventeenth-century East India Compa…
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