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100			_aSimpson, Thomas _953494
245			_aFind the river: Discovering the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra in the age of empire
260			_aModern Asian Studies
300			_a 58(1), Jan, 2024: p.127-162
520			_aDespite the enormous size and economic and scientific significance of the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra River, questions of where and what it was generated successive waves of dispute from the mid-eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. Geographical discovery in the eastern Himalayan borderlands neither entailed the application of fixed theories and techniques, nor resulted from consistent flows of information along established channels. Europeans instead understood the region’s rivers in many different ways, influenced by sporadic deluges of data, competing forms of expertise, shifting imperatives of colonial political economy, unsettling encounters with various bodies of water, and heterogeneous Asian knowledge structures. Informants, infrastructures, and cosmologies of often-overlooked communities at imperial margins fundamentally reshaped European knowledge. Under these conditions, practitioners of spatial sciences came to thrive on the proliferation of models and objects of discovery rather than seeking definitive closure.- Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/find-the-river-discovering-the-tsangpobrahmaputra-in-the-age-of-empire/9320CD51A1F956165ADD7F4CDCC253CE
650			_aTsangpo-Brahmaputra River, Geographical discovery, Eastern Himalayan borderlands, Colonial political economy, European knowledge, Competing expertise, Informants, Infrastructures, Asian knowledge structures, Spatial sciences, Imperial margins, Scientific significance, Economic importance _953495
773			_aModern Asian Studies
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