Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia 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.Contributors. Jason Cons, Rosalind Evans, Nicholas Farrelly, David N. Gellner, Radhika Gupta, Sondra L. Hausner, Annu Jalais, Vibha Joshi, Nayanika Mathur, Deepak K. Mishra, Anastasia Piliavsky, Jeevan R. Sharma, Willem van Schendel

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822377306
• Artikelnr.: 54788310

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii
Introduction. Northern South Asia's Diverse Borders, from Kachchh to
Mizoram / David N. Gellner 1
1. Borders without Borderlands: On the Social Reproduction of State
Demarcation in Rajasthan / Anastasia Piliavsky 24
2. Allegiance and Alienation: Border Dynamics in Kargil / Radhika Gupta 47
3. Naturalizing the Himalaya-as-Border in Uttarakhand / Nayanika Mathur 72
4. On the Way to India: Nepali Rituals of Border Crossing / Sondra L.
Hausner and Jeevan R. Sharma 94
5. The Perils of Being a Borderland People: On the Lhotshampas of Bhutan /
Rosalind Evans 117
6. Developing the Border: The State and the Political Economy of
Development in Arunachal Pradesh / Deepak K. Mishra 141
7. The Micropolitics of Borders: The Issue of Greater Nagaland (or Nagalim)
/ Vibha Joshi 163
8. Nodes of Control in a South(east) Asian Borderland / Nicholas Farrelly
194
9. Histories of Belonging(s): Narrating Territory, Possession, and
Dispossession at the India-Bangladesh Border / Jason Cons 214
10. Geographies and Identities: Subaltern Partition Stories along Bengal's
Southern Frontier / Annu Jalais 245
Afterword. Making the Most of "Sensitive" Borders / Willem van Schendel 266
Contributors 273
Bibliography 277
Index 303