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Borderland lives in northern South Asia

Title
Borderland lives in northern South Asia / edited by David N. Gellner ; with an afterword by Willem van Schendel.
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Gellner, David N.
  • Schendel, Willem van.
Description
310 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • 74.21 geography of Asia
  • Boundaries
  • International relations
  • Politics and government
  • Social conditions
  • Bevölkerung
  • Grenzgebiet
  • South Asia > Boundaries > History
  • South Asia > Politics and government
  • South Asia > Relations
  • South Asia > Social conditions
  • South Asia
  • Indien > Nord
  • Zuid-Azië
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-302) and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780822355427
  • 0822355426
  • 9780822355564
  • 0822355566
LCCN
2013029328
OCLC
  • ocn854906240
  • 854906240
  • SCSB-14423532
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library