01310nam a22001337a 4500 533641 533641 260608b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d De, Somoshree 61125 Pre-colonial Duars as Indo-Bhutan borderland: Towards a historical reconstruction The Indian Economic and Social History Review 63(1), Jan-Mar, 2026: p.55-75 Drawing 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 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00194646251415056?_gl=1*flbgdy*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTIyMDkwMDAxLjE 3ODA5MTM1OTg.*_ga_60R758KFDG*czE3ODA5MTM1OTckbzEkZzEkdDE3ODA5MTM2MTEkajQ2JGwxJGgzODAxNTI2NjE. The Indian Economic and Social History Revi AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408821 IIPA IIPA 2026-06-08 63(1), Jan-Mar, 2026: p.55-75 AR139114 2026-06-08 AR