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Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia
Title
Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia [electronic resource].
ISBN
9780822355427
0822355426
9780822377306
0822377306
Published
Durham NC : Duke University Press, 2014.
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1 online resource
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Summary
This book 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.
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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.
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