01249nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100001800041245008600059260005100145300003500196520086000231773004801091260608b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aDe, Somoshree  aPre-colonial Duars as Indo-Bhutan borderland: Towards a historical reconstruction  aThe Indian Economic and Social History Review   a 63(1), Jan-Mar, 2026: p.55-75  aDrawing upon official and local Indian sources, translations of Bhutanese sources, colonial records, oral history reports and field reports, this article aims to outline a connected history of a frontier region called Duars, and its role as Indo-Bhutan borderland during the pre-colonial period. The article highlights the need to rethink and interrogate how human history has been conventionally written by opening up the possibility of engaging with sacred/divine periods in the regional historical narratives and oral accounts that throws light on the nature and evolution of political and social formations of an ecoregion such as Duars.-Reproduced 

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