Entangled Lives
Human-Animal-Plant Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle

'Reading Entangled Lives, is a most effective way of getting acquainted with the Eastern Himalayan Triangle, a territory that forms a geographical and ecological region, buttressed between India and China at the core of which lies North-East India. The Triangle cuts across many international boundaries raising fascinating questions for the historian. A striking feature of this study is the charting of inter-relationships between plant, animal and human life, drawing on the symbolism of local narratives and information from contemporary disciplines. The book is a most impressive statement on how these human societies have related to their landscape, cosmologies, histories, and informs us about the continuities from the past and the changes in the present. Maps and illustrations add to the readability of a very accessible text.' Romila Thapar, Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

'Entangled Lives – the first more-than-human history of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle by two master historians – is a groundbreaking text on the accounts of storying the intertwinement of Himalayan geology, homo sapiens, animals, and plants in the span of 40,000 years, overcoming modern anthropocentric historiographies' blindness to nonhuman lifeworlds, and recounting the co-creating, co-becoming, and co-transforming roles of humans and nonhumans who have together shaped the shared habitability of the Triangle. The authors' planetary engagement with a regional interspecies history critically reaffirms the invaluable role of more-than-human perspectives in our understanding of locally-manifested planetary challenges!' Dan Smyer Yü, Yunnan University, China; International Faculty Member, Universität zu Köln, Germany

'This book is a must read for historians, scholars, and academicians interested in the Eastern Himalayan region. It encourages readers to relearn and reexamine the region's history, narratives, practices, traditions and the interconnectedness that exists among them.' Ramnath Reghunandhan and Loung Nathan K. K., Asian Affairs