Frontiers of Imagination
Reading over Thomas Lewin’s Shoulders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11418017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lalruatkima Lalruatkima (Independent Researcher., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-38 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0257-6430 • E-ISSN: 0973-080X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0257643015615998 |
| OpenAlex | W2341076297 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Frontiers evoke images of linear and ethnocentric contact zones. Much of the historical records about the northeastern frontier of British India reinforce this idea of the frontier. This article facilitates an intervention through a reading of two monographs authored by Thomas H. Lewin, who in 1866 was appointed as the Deputy Commissioner and Political Agent of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Frontiers as imaginative spaces open the field of inquiry to the tropes and symbols that organise the contested, fluid and fluctuating relations between the British government and the hill tribes. From this imaginative space, Lewin’s monographs underscore the dynamism of frontier tropes in the construction of individual and collective identities
Archaeology · Dynamism · Epistemology · Ethnocentrism · Field (mathematics · Frontier · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |