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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.

South Asia > Boundaries > History.

South Asia > Politics and government.

South Asia > Relations.

South Asia > Social conditions.