Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia: Between the Mekong and the Indus

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle\nCopyright\nDedication\nCONTENTS\nList of illustrations\nNotes on contributors\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: objects of frontiers\nPART I  Commodities, resource frontiers, and state making\n	1	Trans-Indus salt: objects, resistance, and violence in the North-West Frontier of British India\n	2	‘Objects’ of appropriations: locating material efficacies of rubber in the northeastern resource frontier of British India, 1810–1906\n	3	Tibetan materiality versus British ‘Ornamentalism’: diplomacy, objects, and resistance in the imperial archive\nPART II  Networks, things, and violence\n	4	From highlands to lowlands: the Pu’er tea trading network and ethnic-group interactions in the frontier of Yunnan, 1662–1796\n	5	Embracing the black and white gold: the shift and continuity of the core objects in the tropical Yunnan borderlands\n	6	Guns, gifts, and guerrillas: knowledge and objects during World War II in the Indo–Myanmar (Burma) frontier\nPART III  Regions, cultures, and connections\n	7	A spot of enlightenment: tea as a fuel for connectivity in Himalayan Buddhist cultures\n	8	Objects in the border poetry of Northeast India and Southwest China\nAfterword: the flow of objects at the political edges: a postscript\nBibliography\nIndex