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UNINA9910166654003321 |
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Titolo |
Borderland lives in northern South Asia / / edited by David N. Gellner ; with an afterword by Willem van Schendel |
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Durham NC, : Duke University Press, 2014 |
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Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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9780822355564 |
0822355566 |
9780822377306 |
0822377306 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GellnerDavid N |
SchendelWillem van |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Asian history |
South Asia Boundaries History |
South Asia Politics and government |
South Asia Relations |
South Asia Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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, |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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