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Titolo: | Borderland lives in northern South Asia / / edited by David N. Gellner ; with an afterword by Willem van Schendel |
Pubblicazione: | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (319 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.20954 |
Soggetto geografico: | South Asia Boundaries History |
South Asia Politics and government | |
South Asia Relations | |
South Asia Social conditions | |
Altri autori: | GellnerDavid N SchendelWillem van |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Borderland lives in northern South Asia |
ISBN: | 0-8223-5556-6 |
0-8223-7730-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910166654003321 |
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