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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166654003321

Titolo

Borderland lives in northern South Asia / / edited by David N. Gellner ; with an afterword by Willem van Schendel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham NC, : Duke University Press, 2014

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2013

ISBN

9780822355564

0822355566

9780822377306

0822377306

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GellnerDavid N

SchendelWillem van

Disciplina

306.20954

Soggetti

Asian history

South Asia Boundaries History

South Asia Politics and government

South Asia Relations

South Asia Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This volumes presents assays on the peoples living along India's borders with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, China, and Nepal reveal Northern South Asia as a region encompassing radically different ways of life and relationships to the state.