Introduction
Introduction
This chapter delineates the major areas and concerns of this book. Besides highlighting some typical specificities of the region, it also points to its diversities. This is combined with a discussion that critiques the existing historiography to project the possibilities of alternative ways and methods.
Keywords: conversions, colonial power/knowledge, and modernity, decolonisation, dowry, hinduisation, indigenous medical systems, internal exploiters, oral testimonies, patriarchy, resistance
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