ABSTRACT
In her history of Bastar, Nandini Sundar observed that ‘[c]olonialism’s distinctive contribution was not in integrating these regions into some wider system, but in changing the terms of this integration’. 1 In the Chittagong Hill Tracts, a similar process began in the late eighteenth century when in 1760, the Kapas Mahal, as the region was known, was informally ceded to the East India Company.
