Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia /
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 M...
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Durham :
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2013.
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Table of 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.