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List of figures. Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Frames of region and people: practices of knowledge and representation I: Region, Frontier and State 1. Region Formed and Imagined: Reconsidering Temporal, Spatial and Social Context of Kāmarūpa 2. Conquest and the Quotidian: Forms of Violence and the Making of Tripura (1760–1793) 3. The Arteries of Empire: Routes, People and Mobility in Colonial Naga Hills, 1850s – 1920s II: Knowledge, People and Representation 4: Vai phobia to Raj nostalgia: Sahibs, chiefs and commoners in colonial Lushai hills 5. Text, Knowledge and Representation: Reading Gender in Sumi Marriage Practices 6. Orality: Analysing Its Politics Within the Domains of the Mizo Narrative 7. Empire and the Making of a Narrative: The Ballad of the General and its History as a Historical Source in Colonial Assam III: Writing Culture, Writing Politics 8. Of People and their Stories: Writings in English from India’s Northeast 9. Close Encounters of the Real Kind: The Avatars of Terror in Two Assamese Short Stories 10: Subdued Eloquence: Poetics of Body Movement, Time and Space. Bibliography. Index