The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland

The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland is a pictorial introduction to and also a historical account of the region lying in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, which is home to about eleven different communities. Spanning over a period of more than 100 years, i.e., from 1860-1970, the book is divided into twenty thematic chapters and a conclusion with four maps and more than 400 mostly unpublished photographs. The book provides its reader with a visual and written account of a region much unknown to the outside world. Using photographs mostly taken by the colonial administrators (both British and Pakistani), tourists, anthropologists, some locals, and private collections of the elites of the region the authors have attempted to construct an alternative history of the Hills focusing on the ruled instead of the rulers, their lives, religions, economies, modes of communications and cultures.