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Borderland lives in northern South Asia / edited by David N. Gellner ; with an afterword by Willem van Schendel.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Asia--Boundaries--History.
- South Asia.
- South Asia--Politics and government.
- South Asia--Relations.
- South Asia--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham NC Duke University Press 2014
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volumes presents assays on the peoples living along India's borders with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, China, and Nepal reveal Northern South Asia as a region encompassing radically different ways of life and relationships to the state.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Northern South Asia's diverse borders, from Kachchh to Mizoram / David N. Gellner
- Borders without borderlands : on the social reproduction of state demarcation in Rajasthan / Anastasia Piliavsky
- Allegiance and alienation : border dynamics in Kargil / Radhika Gupta
- Naturalizing the Himalaya-as-border in Uttarakhand / Nayanika Mathur
- On the way to India : Nepali rituals of border crossing / Sondra L. Hausner and Jeevan R. Sharma
- The perils of being a borderland people : on the Lhotshampas of Bhutan / Rosalind Evans
- Developing the border : state and the political economy of development in Arunachal Pradesh / Deepak K. Mishra
- The micropolitics of borders : the issue of Greater Nagaland (or Nagalim) / Vibha Joshi
- Nodes of control in a South(east) Asian borderland / Nicholas Farrelly
- Histories of belonging(s) : narrating territory, possession, and dispossession at the India-Bangladesh border / Jason Cons
- Geographies and identities : subaltern partition stories along Bengal's southern frontier / Annu Jalais
- Afterword: Making the most of "sensitive" borders / Willem van Schendel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- ISBN:
- 9780822355564
- 0822355566
- 9780822377306
- 0822377306
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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