Willem Van Schendel

The Bengal Borderland (eBook, PDF)

Beyond State and Nation in South Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

A look at South Asia beyond state and nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857287472
• Artikelnr.: 44360816

Autorenporträt

Willem van Schendel is Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and heads the Asia department of the International Institute of Social History at Amsterdam. Formerly, he held the chair of Comparative History at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures, Plates, Tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1. Studying Borderlands, 2. Partition Studies
3. Radcliffe's Fateful Line
4. A Patchwork Border
5. Security the Territory
6. Defiance and Accommodation
7. The Flow of Goods
8. Narratives of Border Crossing
9. Migrants, Fences and Deportation
10. Rebels and Bandits
11. 'Rifle Raj' and the Killer Border
12. Nation and Borderland
13. Conclusion: Beyond State and Nation
Appendix, References, Index