Borderland lives in northern South Asia

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gellner, David N. (-), Schendel, Willem van
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press 2013.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426075106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.