Publication

2013 - Duke University Press, Durham NC, No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

English

Word Count

77,500 words, Guess

Page Count

310 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780822355427
  • ISBN-139780822377306
  • ISBN-100822355426
  • ISBN-100822377306
  • WikidataQ57235035
and 5 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2013029328
  • OCLC Control Number854906240
  • Better World Books9780822355427
  • Better World Books9780822377306
  • Open LibraryOL28358712M

Classifications

  • LCCDS341 .B67 2013
  • LCCDS341.B67 2013
  • LCCDS341

Description

This book 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.

Subjects

Links

Other Editions

  • Borderland Lives in Northern South AsiaDuke University Press2013

Reader Reviews

No reviews yet for this book.

Be the first to share your thoughts!