ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Histories of Asia's Gendered Armed Frontiers, 1780 - 2021
HAGAF will pioneer research in the comparative and transnational, colonial, and post-colonial history of protracted conflicts in the borderlands of Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh through a gendered lens. Referred to in HAGAF as the Indo-Burma borderlands, this historically marginalized, mountainous region was once central to the North East Frontier of British India and part of a global strategic defence system. Bringing together extensive but administratively separate colonial archives with field-based historical research in local communities for the first time, HAGAF will transform understanding of the Frontier and its legacies through inquiry focused on gender, kinship, and social change.…
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