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Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia
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2013
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
David N. Gellner is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He is the editor of Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia and Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia and coeditor (with Krishna Hachhethu) of Local Democracy in South Asia: Microprocesses of Democratization in Nepal and Its Neighbours.
Reviews
"Anthropologists working on any issue of contemporary identity or politics would be well served to study this volume, as well as van Schendel's original essay and the literature it has inspired. I expect that, armed with this perspective, researchers will find more borderlands than we anticipated while also finding the entire concept of borders and the entities allegedly bounded by these borders increasingly problematic."
-- Jack David Eller Anthropology Review Database
“Readers from a variety of theoretical and geographical orientations will appreciate its challenge to nation- and state-centric theorizing about borders. In this, the volume offers a most welcome addition to the literature on life where political and scholarly “areas” meet.”
-- Sarah Besky American Ethnologist
"Although the history of Partition, antagonism with neighboring states, and the rich ethnic diversity of border regions make India’s borderlands a unique case, the essays in this volume speak to wider, comparative issues. The book would be significant for undergraduate and graduate courses on South Asia and India, anthropologies of the state, and comparative border studies."
-- Chad Haines Journal of Anthropological Research
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION Northern South Asia’s Diverse Borders, from Kachchh to Mizoram
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ONE Borders without Borderlands
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TWO Allegiance and Alienation
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THREE Naturalizing the Himalaya-as-Border in Uttarakhand
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FOUR On the Way to India
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FIVE The Perils of Being a Borderland People
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SI X A Developing the Border
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SEVEN The Micropolitics of Borders
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EIGHT Nodes of Control in a South(east) Asian Borderland
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NINE Histories of Belonging(s)
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TEN Geographies and Identities
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AFTERWORD Making the Most of ‘Sensitive’ Borders
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CONTRIBUTORS
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 20, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9781478091349
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
318
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16 photographs, 14 maps
eBook ISBN:
9781478091349
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Professional and scholarly;
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