Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia
Material type: ArticleLanguage: English Publication details: Durham NC Duke University Press 2014ISBN:- 9780822377306
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Electronic edition | Bucheon University Library | History | OAPEN | 94 B78 | Not for loan | Смотреть (pdf) | 1009560 |
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This book provides valuable new ethnographic insights into life along some of the most contentious borders in the world. The collected essays portray existence at different points across India's northern frontiers and, in one instance, along borders within India. Whether discussing Shi'i Muslims striving to be patriotic Indians in the Kashmiri district of Kargil or Bangladeshis living uneasily in an enclave surrounded by Indian territory, the contributors show that state borders in Northern South Asia are complex sites of contestation. India's borders with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, China, and Nepal encompass radically different ways of life, a whole spectrum of relationships to the state, and many struggles with urgent identity issues. Taken together, the essays show how, by looking at state-making in diverse, border-related contexts, it is possible to comprehend Northern South Asia's various nation-state projects without relapsing into conventional nationalist accounts.
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