Hunter, Peasant, Rebel: Colonialism and the British Assam Frontier

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	The Conceptual Outline
	Some of the Existing Approaches
	An Outline of the Chapters
	Notes
Chapter 1: Commerce and Hunting: Memoir, Adventure, Representation
	Introduction
	Writing Resource, Adventure and Hunting
	The Memoir and the Crisis of Representing Experience
	Lakhminath Bezbaroa’s ‘Reminiscences of My Life’: Adventure and Class-Making
	Notes
Chapter 2: Historical Ballads: Genre, Peasants and History
	Introduction
	The Colonial Agrarian Context of the Ballads
	Historical Overview of the Ballads: Events, Plots, Characters
	The Peasant World: Space, History and Agrarian Material Life in the Ballads
	Interpreting the Genre: Between Possibility and Necessity in Structural Relations
	Notes
Chapter 3: Bishnu Prasad Rabha: The Making of a Rebel’s Worldview
	Introduction
	Historicising the Family of Bishnu Prasad Rabha
	Bishnu Prasad Rabha: Youth and Education
	Contextualising the Interpretative Departure (1926–1942)
	The Path of Political Discovery (1943–1955)
		Bishnu Rabha and His Writings
		Bishnu Rabha’s Worldview and Its Limits
	Notes
Chapter 4: Culture and Frontier: Colonialism, Form and Crisis
	Notes
Chapter 5: Conclusion
	Notes
Appendix to Chapter 1
	The Trans-Frontier and the Adventure of Trading in Purnakanta Buragohain’s Patkair Sipare Na Basar
	Notes
Appendix to Chapter 2
	A Note on the Role of Collectors
	Notes
Appendix to Chapter 3
	The Aftermath
	The Problem of Biography and Legends on Bishnu Prasad Rabha’s Life
	Notes
Bibliography
	Articles in Journals
	Books
Index