Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia
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. W...
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INTRODUCTION Northern South Asia's Diverse Borders, from Kachchh to Mizoram
ONE Borders without Borderlands
TWO Allegiance and Alienation
THREE Naturalizing the Himalaya-as-Border in Uttarakhand
FOUR On the Way to India
FIVE The Perils of Being a Borderland People
SI X A Developing the Border
SEVEN The Micropolitics of Borders
EIGHT Nodes of Control in a South(east) Asian Borderland
NINE Histories of Belonging(s)
TEN Geographies and Identities
AFTERWORD Making the Most of 'Sensitive' Borders
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- Englisch
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Durham NC :
Duke University Press,
2013.
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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
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- 1 online resource (317 p.)
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- In English.
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9781478091349
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