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Connected histories and the dream of decolonial history / Chatterjee, Indrani

CHATTERJEE, INDRANI	Journal Article
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This essay argues that historians in post-colonial nation-states and spaces cannot offer connected histories across spaces shaped by war and the partitions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It provides examples of these hurdles from a space called ‘Assam’ in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century colonial archive. Native scribes collaborated with colonial Britons in writing accounts that set up spaces as culturally separate and disconnected from erstwhile hegemons. The essay concludes that connected histories of pre-colonial pasts remain a dream in a post-colonial context shaped by global and local investments in mythologised spaces, governing ideals and culturally separatist institutions.

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Geography ; Assam ; Buddhism ; Ethnology ; Connected History

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Women, monastic commerce, and coverture in Eastern India circa 1600–1800 ce / Chatterjee, Indrani

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This article argues that economic histories of the transition to colonial economics in the eighteenth century have overlooked the infrastructural investments that wives and widows made in networks of monastic commerce. Illustrative examples from late eighteenth-century records suggest that these networks competed with the commercial networks operated by private traders serving the English East India Company at the end of the eighteenth century. The latter prevailed. The results were the establishment of coverture and wardship laws interpellated from British common law courts into Company revenue policies, the demolition of buildings. and the relocation of the markets that were attached to many of the buildings women had sponsored. Together, these historical processes made women's commercial presence invisible to future scholars.

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Women ; Monastic Commerce ; Coverture in Eastern India ; 1600–1800 CE

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