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082			_a294.095416 _bCHA-F
100			_aChatterjee, Indrani _96983
245			_aForgotten friends: _bmonks, marriages, and memories of northeast India / _cIndrani chatterjee
260			_bOxford Univ. Press, _c2013. _aNew Delhi:
300			_axiv, 451 p.
505			_aLIST 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
520			_a 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.
650			_aBuddhism-Brahmputra river valley-History _96984
942			_cBK
999			_c5554 _d5554