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Beyond lines of control : performance and politics on the disputed borders of Ladakh, India / Ravina Aggarwal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aggarwal, Ravina.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ladākh (India)--Politics and government.
- Ladākh (India).
- Ladākh (India)--Boundaries.
- Ladākh (India)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A historical and ethnographic account of a region located on the border of India and Pakistan; the people who live there engage with the specter of war and religious conflict, racial identity, and the processes of modernity through varying performative mo
- Contents:
- Borders performed
- Staging Independence Day
- Observing rituals in the inner line zone
- Screening a contested landscape
- Songs of honor, lines of descent
- Border games
- Flowing across the lines.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613023803
- 9781283023801
- 1283023806
- 9780822385899
- 0822385899
- OCLC:
- 220950710
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