TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chatterjee, Indrani 
TI  - Forgotten friends: : monks, marriages, and memories of northeast India 
SN  - 9780198089223
U1  - 294.095416 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
KW  - Buddhism-Brahmputra river valley-History
N1  - LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. : MONASTIC GOVERNANCE, 'GEOGRAPHICITY', GENDER; 2. : EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SHIFTS OF MONASTIC GOVERNMENTS; 3. : POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND RECONSTITUTED 'HINDU' MARRIAGE; 4. : TRANSLATIONS OF ADHERENCE: FROM 'FEUDALISM' AND 'SLAVERY' TO 'SAVAGERY'; 5. : A FRATERNITY OF TEA AND THE MONASTIC POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP; 6. : UNDOING GENDER? RESTORATION OF MOTHERHOOD AND MEMORY; CONCLUSION: RULE BY ETHNOGRAPHY, FORGETTING MONASTIC HISTORIES AND HOUSEHOLDS; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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This text traces the changing, long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region. Examining the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufis in the northeast, this is a story of how a modern Indian nation forgot its cosmopolitan past and gave itself a new history by forgetting the large numbers of societies centred on women
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