Chowdhury, Tamina M., <br/><br/>
Indigenous identity in South Asia :  making claims in the colonial Chittagong Hill Tracts / 
Tamina M. Chowdhury. 
 - London :  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group  2017. 
 - xi, 198p. :  maps ;  24cm. 
 - Routledge advances in South Asian studies ;  33 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-196) and index. 
<br/><br/>Raids, territorialisation, and agricultural penetration : the Chittagong Hill Tracts before and after annexation, 1760-1861 -- Police, post-raids polities and creation of an economy, 1865-1885 -- The case of the disparaged chiefs, 1891-1930 -- Last attempts to reclaim authority by the hill elites and the making of indigeneity, 1920s-1930s -- Political exclusion and the tracts in the run up to partition, 1933-47 -- Conclusion. 
<br/><br/> This book sheds new light on how the concepts of ‘territory’, and of a ‘people indigenous to it’ came to be forged and politicised. By showing a far deeper historical lineage of claims making in the Tracts, it adds a new dimension to existing studies on Bangladesh’s borders and its history. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138673434 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016-022522 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indigenous peoples--Ethnic identity.--Bangladesh--Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh : Region)--History.<br/>Bangladesh--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS396.8.C45  / C46 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954.92903  / CHO