South Asian Borderlands
South Asian Borderlands
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USDThis is an interdisciplinary volume exploring a range of historical, anthropological and literary ideas and issues in South Asian Borderlands. Going beyond the territorial and geo-political imaginaries of contemporary borderlands in South Asia, chapters in this book engage with the questions of sovereignty, control, policing as well as continuing affections across politically divided borderlands. Modern conceptions of nationhood have created categories of legality and illegality among historically, socially, economically and emotionally connected residents of South Asian borderlands. This volume provides unique insights into the interconnected lives and histories of these borderland spaces and communities.
- Theoretically and thematically innovative
- Transnational perspective throughout the South Asian region
- Goes beyond the idea of borders as territorial and geo-political alone, allowing the reader a new perspective on concepts like history, memory and affect in the context of borderland studies
Product details
April 2022Hardback
9781108844512
294 pages
236 × 162 × 23 mm
0.52kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Tanuja Kothiyal and Farhana Ibrahim
- 1. Paradise at the Frontier: Kashmir as a Political Terrain and Literary Landscape in the Mughal Empire Anubhuti Maurya
- 2. Borders in the Age of Empire and Nation-States: The Honeycomb of Borderlands – Kumaun, Western Tibet and Far Western Nepal Vasudha Pande
- 3. Borders, Difference, Recognition: On the Cause(s) of Gorkhaland Townsend Middleton
- 4. Embattled Frontiers and Emerging Spaces: Transformation of the Tawang Border Swargajyoti Gohain
- 5. Relative Intimacies: Belonging and Difference in Transnational Families across the Bengal Borderland Sahana Ghosh
- 6. Reading Parijat in Nepal: The Poetics of Radical Feminism Negotiating Self and Nation Mallika Shakya
- 7. Commodity Journeys and Market Circuits: Making Borders 'Natural' in Colonial Western Himalayas Aniket Alam
- 8. Frontiers, State and Banditry in the Thar Desert in the Nineteenth Century Tanuja Kothiyal
- 9. Bureaucracy and Border Control: Ethnographic Perspectives on Crime, Police Reform, and 'national security' in Kutch, 1948–1952 Farhana Ibrahim
- 10. Frontier as Resource: Law, Crime, and Sovereignty on the Margins of Empire Eric L. Beverley
- Index.
