Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia David N. Gellner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gellner, David N., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham NC : Duke University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia provides valuable new ethnographic insights into life along some of the most contentious borders in the world. The collected essays portray existence at different points across India's northern frontiers and, in one instance, along borders within India. Whether discussing Shi'i Muslims striving to be patriotic Indians in the Kashmiri district of Kargil or Bangladeshis living uneasily in an enclave surrounded by Indian territory, the contributors show that state borders in Northern South Asia are complex sites of contestation. India's borders with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, China, and Nepal encompass radically different ways of life, a whole spectrum of relationships to the state, and many struggles with urgent identity issues. Taken together, the essays show how, by looking at state-making in diverse, border-related contexts, it is possible to comprehend Northern South Asia's various nation-state projects without relapsing into conventional nationalist accounts. Contributors: Jason Cons, Rosalind Evans, Nicholas Farrelly, David N. Gellner, Radhika Gupta, Sondra L. Hausner, Annu Jalais, Vibha Joshi, Nayanika Mathur, Deepak K. Mishra, Anastasia Piliavsky, Jeevan R. Sharma, Willem van Schendel

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION Northern South Asia's Diverse Borders, from Kachchh to Mizoram / David N. Gellner

ONE Borders without Borderlands / Anastasia Piliavsky

TWO Allegiance and Alienation / Radhika Gupta

THREE Naturalizing the Himalaya-as-Border in Uttarakhand / Nayanika Mathur

FOUR On the Way to India / Sondra L. Hausner, Jeevan R. Sharma

FIVE The Perils of Being a Borderland People / Rosalind Evans

SI X A Developing the Border / Deepak K. Mishra

SEVEN The Micropolitics of Borders / Vibha Joshi

EIGHT Nodes of Control in a South(east) Asian Borderland / Nicholas Farrelly

NINE Histories of Belonging(s) / Jason Cons

TEN Geographies and Identities / Annu Jalais

AFTERWORD Making the Most of 'Sensitive' Borders / Willem Van Schendel

CONTRIBUTORS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091349

1478091347

OCLC:

987452870

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/oapen_625238

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access