The sovereignty of political economy
The Garos in a pre-conquest and early conquest era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8961380 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sanghamitra Misra (0000-0002-4430-9291, University of Delhi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 345-387 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019464618778406 |
| OpenAlex | W2870211215 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 12 |
The article is an inquiry into the elision of an image—that of the cotton-producing Garo—in the colonial archive. It situates this inquiry within the pre- and early colonial era where it is still possible to uncover elements of the irrefutable sovereign presence of Garos in eastern India as well as of the regional economic and political system through which the Garo social being makes itself historically visible. Parsing together a narrative of the Garo political order in this period, the article will discuss the ways in which the sovereignty of a people was pivoted around the production and trade in cotton. Rescuing the image of the cotton-producing Garo from the colonial archive is also a retracing of the seamless becoming of the Garo peasant, as adept at working with the hoe as with the plough, into a cotton trader who embarked on long journeys on foot and on boats every cotton season to the lowlands. The article will also probe into the germaneness of the concept of the ‘hill/forest tribe’ with the sedentary plainsman as its oppositional image and the embedding of ethnicity in circumscribed ‘natural’ habitats in eastern India by the colonial state
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · CONQUEST · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ethnic group · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Tribe · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |