South Asian borderlands: mobility, history, affect

This is an interdisciplinary volume exploring a range of historical, anthropological and literary ideas and issues in South Asian Borderlands. Going beyond the territorial and geo-political imaginaries of contemporary borderlands in South Asia, chapters in this book engage with the questions of sove...

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Other Authors: Ibrahim, Farhana 1975- (Editor), Kothiyal, Tanuja ca. 20./21. Jh (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021
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Summary:This is an interdisciplinary volume exploring a range of historical, anthropological and literary ideas and issues in South Asian Borderlands. Going beyond the territorial and geo-political imaginaries of contemporary borderlands in South Asia, chapters in this book engage with the questions of sovereignty, control, policing as well as continuing affections across politically divided borderlands. Modern conceptions of nationhood have created categories of legality and illegality among historically, socially, economically and emotionally connected residents of South Asian borderlands. This volume provides unique insights into the interconnected lives and histories of these borderland spaces and communities
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Paradise at the frontier : Kashmir as a political terrain and literary landscape in the Mughal Empire / Anubhuti Maurya -- Borders in the Age of Empire and nation-states : the honeycomb of borderlands : Kumaun, Western Tibet and Far Western Nepal / Vasudha Pande -- Borders, difference, recognition : on the cause(s) of Gorkhaland / Townsend Middleton -- Embattled frontiers and emerging spaces : transformation of the Tawang border / Swargajyoti Gohain -- Relative intimacies : belonging and difference in transnational families across the Bengal borderland / Sahana Ghosh -- Reading Parijat in Nepal : the poetics of radical feminsim negotiating self and nation / Malika Shakya -- Commodity journeys and market circuits : making borders "natural" in colonial Western Himalayas / Aniket Alam -- Frontiers, state and banditry in the Thar Desert in the nineteenth century / Tanuja Kothiyal -- Bureaucracy and border control : ethnographic perspectives on crime, police reform and "national security" in Kutch, 1948-52 / Farhana Ibrahim -- Frontier as resource : law, crime and sovereignty on the margins of empire / Eric Lewis Beverly
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 286 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108951500
DOI:10.1017/9781108951500

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