Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia

Herausgeber: Gellner, David N

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355564
• ISBN-10: 0822355566
• Artikelnr.: 38534945

Autorenporträt

David N. Gellner, ed.

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