Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Mirs of Hunza xiii
5. Chronology of the Hunza State and Its Relationships with Surrounding Polities xv
6. Introduction 1
7. chapter 1 Lifting the Veil The Sacred and Political Geography of Hunza 21
8. chapter 2 The Friction and Rhetoric of Distance and the Alterity of Hunza 43
9. chapter 3 Frontier Matters Irrelevance, Romanticism, and Transformation of Hunza Society 62
10. chapter 4 Rural Romance and Refuge from Civilization 88
11. chapter 5 The Origin of a Nation Hunza and Postcolonial Identity 108
12. chapter 6 On the Edge of the World 128
13. chapter 7 Strange Strangers in the Land of Paradise 160
14. chapter 8 Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Articulation of an Ecological Identity 189
15. Epilogue 210
16. Notes 217
17. References 239
18. Index 255