Governing the North East Frontiers

Economic and Political Weekly, 59(46), 16 Nov. 2024, pp. 21-23. Fulltext PDF When the East India Company acquired the Diwani of Bengal in 1765, the present-day Meghalaya state became the immediate frontier of the Company, until Assam was fully annexed over the next century. The inhabitants of this frontier were, describes Alexander Mackenzie (1884: 245), Secretary to the Government of India in the […]

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