An eventful politics of difference and its afterlife
Chittagong frontier, Bengal, c. 1657–1757
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 8961330 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Romita Choudhury (0000-0002-1771-1795, Cornell University, autor correspondente), Rishad Choudhury (Cornell University) |
| Ano | 2015 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 271-296 |
| Data de publicação | 2015-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893 |
| Editora | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019464615588424 |
| OpenAlex | W1936672998 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 7 |
| Referências citadas | 40 |
This essay seeks to illuminate the ‘biography’ of an early modern frontier in Chittagong, Bengal. It unravels the political rise and cultural reification of the frontier by revisiting, through multiple perspectives and successive stages, the final years in the life of a Mughal prince, Muhammad Sultan Shah Shuja‘ (1616–60?). I suggest that the language of a state frontier emerged from an ‘eventful’ conjuncture: a war of succession that caused Prince Shuja‘ to take flight through Chittagong to the Mrauk-U Kingdom in Arakan, northern Burma. Born of these events, it is argued that the genealogy of the Chittagong frontier shored up a deep history of difference between Bengal and Arakan. Beginning with some reflections from the colonial epoch, the essay then moves back for a consideration of seventeenth-century Chittagong. From 1660, as the state discourse of the frontier first took form, I follow the category to 1666, when the Mughal military annexed the city. The next section moves forward again to illustrate how the twin memory of the prince and the frontier were recalled in later, chiefly eighteenth-century traditions in Bengal. Ultimately, the essay contributes to a growing discussion on the political ideology of frontiers in early modern India. Likewise, it reorients the question of the impact of Indo-Persian on vernacular traditions by observing that such entanglements inspired both ‘cosmopolitanism’ and ‘othering’ in South and Southeast Asia
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · BENGAL · Colonialism · Frontier · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Vernacular · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Locating Arakan in Time, Space, and Historical Scholarship
Myth and History of Bengali Identity in Arakan
Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India
The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719
And a River runs trough it
Courtly Encounters
Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era
Strange Parallels
Slaves and Tyrants
Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century
Southeast Asia as Seen from Mughal India
Représentations du monde dans le golfe du Bengale au XVIIe siècle
Empires in World History
The Deccan Frontier and Mughal Expansion, Ca. 1600
The Revenue Administration of the East India Company in Chittagong, 1761-1785
Banditry in Mughal India
Crisis and Reformation in a Maritime Kingdom of Southeast Asia
The Unending Frontier
The Maritime Frontier of Burma
Rise of a Mainland Trading State
The Chakma tribe of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in the 18th Century
Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance
The Frontiers of Memory
The Real Value of the Lands
The Imperial Crisis in the Deccan
The Right-Left Division of South Indian Society
The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb
Logics of History
The Frontiers of 'Burma
| Obras citantes distintas | 7 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,88 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 7 |