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region: South Asia
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The Bodo of Assam: Revisiting a Classical Study from 1950
E-book
**Halfdan Siiger (edited by Peter B. Andersen, Santosh K. Soren) 2015 The Bodo (or Boros) are one of the indigenous tribal peoples of Assam. During colonial times they resisted Christianization and in recent decades they have been involved both in interethnic violence and separatist insurgencies. Much research has gone into understanding the Boros and their […]
Read moreGendered Entanglements: Revisiting Gender in Rapidly Changing Asia
E-book
Ragnhild Lund, Philippe Doneys & Bernadette P. Resurrección (eds) 2015 The overall objective of this volume is to revisit gender as a concept that can engage simultaneously with change and continuity in today’s Asia, but with greater intellectual reflexivity to examine multiple, intersecting, and complex dimensions of identity and difference, and formerly unacknowledged sources of […]
Asia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Central Asia, China, East Asia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Asia, Southeast Asia
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Mobile Citizens: French Indians in Indochina, 1858-1954
E-book
Natasha Pairaudeau 2016 When France laid claim to the territories which became French Indochina, its beleaguered trading posts on the east coast of India gained a new purpose, sending Indians to help secure and administer its newest possessions and to assist in their commercial expansion. The migrants were among those peoples of France’s overseas empire […]
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