Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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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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Utgivningsdatum2013-12-20
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor277
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822355564

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Preface viiIntroduction. Northern South Asia's Diverse Borders, from Kachchh to Mizoram / David N. Gellner 11. Borders without Borderlands: On the Social Reproduction of State Demarcation in Rajasthan / Anastasia Piliavsky 242. Allegiance and Alienation: Border Dynamics in Kargil / Radhika Gupta 473. Naturalizing the Himalaya-as-Border in Uttarakhand / Nayanika Mathur 724. On the Way to India: Nepali Rituals of Border Crossing / Sondra L. Hausner and Jeevan R. Sharma 945. The Perils of Being a Borderland People: On the Lhotshampas of Bhutan / Rosalind Evans 1176. Developing the Border: The State and the Political Economy of Development in Arunachal Pradesh / Deepak K. Mishra 1417. The Micropolitics of Borders: The Issue of Greater Nagaland (or Nagalim) / Vibha Joshi 1638. Nodes of Control in a South(east) Asian Borderland / Nicholas Farrelly 1949. Histories of Belonging(s): Narrating Territory, Possession, and Dispossession at the India-Bangladesh Border / Jason Cons 21410. Geographies and Identities: Subaltern Partition Stories along Bengal's Southern Frontier / Annu Jalais 245Afterword. Making the Most of "Sensitive" Borders / Willem van Schendel 266Contributors 273Bibliography 277Index 303

"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)