Borderland lives in northern South Asia / edited by David N. Gellner ; with an afterword by Willem van Schendel.
Material type: TextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.Description: 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780822355564 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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306.2 SHA The anthropology of the state : | 306.201 SAS Territory, authority, rights : | 306.201 SAS Territory, authority, rights : | 306.20954 GEL Borderland lives in northern South Asia / | 306.20954 KAV The imaginary institution of India : | 306.20987 COR The magical state : | 306.27 GUS Nuclear rites : |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-302) and index.
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.
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