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Chatterjee, Indrani.

Forgotten friends : Monks, marriages, and memories of Northeast India / Indrani Chatterjee. - xiv, 451 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-419) and index.

Table of Contents
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

ISBN: 9780198089223 (hbk.) 0198089228 (hbk.)

Source: Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

LCCN: 2013319908

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB2A4260 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016190599 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Buddhism--History.--Brahmaputra River Valley
Hinduism--History.--Brahmaputra River Valley
Sufism--History.--Brahmaputra River Valley
Women and religion--History.--Brahmaputra River Valley

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Brahmaputra River Valley--Religious life and customs--History.

LC Class. No.: BQ349.B73 / C43 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 294.0954 CHA