01821nam a22002297a 4500020001800000041000900018082001900027100002700046245010000073250002300173260003100196300001500227504005100242520115400293546001301447650001101460650001101471650002301482650002201505650003201527650003201559  a9780367442941  aeng.  a959.104bPAU-I  aPau, Pum Khaneauthor.  aIndo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills : bEmpire and Resistance /cPum Khan Pau.  aSouth Asia Edition  aIndia :bRoutledge,c2019.  axvi, 343p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aThis book examines the British colonial expansion in the so-called unadministered hill tracts of the Indo-Burma frontier and the change of colonial policy from non-intervention to intervention. The book begins with the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–26), which resulted in the British annexation of the North-Eastern Frontier of Bengal and the extension of its sway over the Arakan and Manipur frontiers, and closes with the separation of Burma from India in 1937. The volume documents the resistance of the indigenous hill peoples to colonial penetration; administrative policies such as disarmament; subjugation of the local chiefs under a colonial legal framework and its impact; standardisation of ‘Chin’ as an ethnic category for the fragmented tribes and sub-tribes; and the creation and consolidation of the Chin Hills District as a political entity to provide an extensive account of British relations with the indigenous Chin/Zo community from 1824 to 1935. By situating these within the larger context of British imperial policy, the book makes a critical analysis of the British approach towards the Indo-Burma frontier.

  aEnglish.  aBurma.  aIndia.  aBurmaxChin State.  aBritish colonies.  aAnti-imperialist movements.  aAnti-imperialist movements.