Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial border-making practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and geography into politics. Despite a century of attempts, experts failed to produce a border through the mountainous Himalayas, leading to war between India and China in 1962.
Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial border-making practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and geography into politics. Despite a century of attempts, experts failed to produce a border through the mountainous Himalayas, leading to war between India and China in 1962.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kyle J. Gardner is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University.
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Preface Acknowledgements A Note on the Text Introduction 1. Territory before Borderlines: Trade, Cosmology, and Modes of Seeing in Pre-Colonial Ladakh 2. Surveys: Boundary-Making Principles, Mapping, and the Problem with Watersheds 3. Communication: Roads, Regulation, and the British Joint Commissioners 4. Reading the Border: Gazetteers, Tribute Missions, and the Problem with Goats 5. Trans-Frontier Men: Invasion Anxieties and Frontier Heroes 6. The Birth of Geopolitics: Frontier Experts, Boundary Commissions, and Trans-frontier Information 7. Lines of Control: From Empire to Nation-State Epilogue.
Preface Acknowledgements A Note on the Text Introduction 1. Territory before Borderlines: Trade, Cosmology, and Modes of Seeing in Pre-Colonial Ladakh 2. Surveys: Boundary-Making Principles, Mapping, and the Problem with Watersheds 3. Communication: Roads, Regulation, and the British Joint Commissioners 4. Reading the Border: Gazetteers, Tribute Missions, and the Problem with Goats 5. Trans-Frontier Men: Invasion Anxieties and Frontier Heroes 6. The Birth of Geopolitics: Frontier Experts, Boundary Commissions, and Trans-frontier Information 7. Lines of Control: From Empire to Nation-State Epilogue.
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