Willem van Schendel is Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and heads the Asia department of the International Institute of Social History at Amsterdam. Formerly, he held the chair of Comparative History at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
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Acknowledgements
1. Studying Borderlands, 2. Partition Studies
3. Radcliffe's Fateful Line
4. A Patchwork Border
5. Security the Territory
6. Defiance and Accommodation
7. The Flow of Goods
8. Narratives of Border Crossing
9. Migrants, Fences and Deportation
10. Rebels and Bandits
11. 'Rifle Raj' and the Killer Border
12. Nation and Borderland
13. Conclusion: Beyond State and Nation
Appendix, References, Index
