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1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
South Asia -- Boundaries -- History.
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South Asia -- Politics and government.
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South Asia -- Relations.
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South Asia -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gellner, David N., editor.
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Schendel, Willem van, contributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Borderland lives in northern South Asia. Durham : Duke University Press, 2013 9780822355427 (DLC)10811715 |
| ISBN |
9780822355427 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780822355564 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822377306 (e-book) |
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