Borderland lives in northern South Asia / / edited by David N. Gellner ; with an afterword by Willem van Schendel.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Table of 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.