South Asian borderlands : mobility, history, affect / edited by Farhana Ibrahim and Tanuja Kothiyal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ibrahim, Farhana, editor.

Kothiyal, Tanuja, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--South Asia.

Borderlands.

Transnationalism--South Asia.

Transnationalism.

Boundaries--South Asia--Social aspects.

Boundaries.

India, North--History.

India, North.

Himalaya Mountains Region--History.

Himalaya Mountains Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This is an interdisciplinary volume exploring a range of historical, anthropological and literary ideas and issues in South Asian Borderlands. Going beyond the territorial and geo-political imaginaries of contemporary borderlands in South Asia, chapters in this book engage with the questions of sovereignty, control, policing as well as continuing affections across politically divided borderlands. Modern conceptions of nationhood have created categories of legality and illegality among historically, socially, economically and emotionally connected residents of South Asian borderlands. This volume provides unique insights into the interconnected lives and histories of these borderland spaces and communities.

Contents:

Paradise at the frontier : Kashmir as a political terrain and literary landscape in the Mughal Empire / Anubhuti Maurya

Borders in the Age of Empire and nation-states : the honeycomb of borderlands : Kumaun, Western Tibet and Far Western Nepal / Vasudha Pande

Borders, difference, recognition : on the cause(s) of Gorkhaland / Townsend Middleton

Embattled frontiers and emerging spaces : transformation of the Tawang border / Swargajyoti Gohain

Relative intimacies : belonging and difference in transnational families across the Bengal borderland / Sahana Ghosh

Reading Parijat in Nepal : the poetics of radical feminsim negotiating self and nation / Malika Shakya

Commodity journeys and market circuits : making borders "natural" in colonial Western Himalayas / Aniket Alam

Frontiers, state and banditry in the Thar Desert in the nineteenth century / Tanuja Kothiyal

Bureaucracy and border control : ethnographic perspectives on crime, police reform and "national security" in Kutch, 1948-52 / Farhana Ibrahim

Frontier as resource : law, crime and sovereignty on the margins of empire / Eric Lewis Beverly.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Sep 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-96757-4

1-108-95150-3

OCLC:

1264727395