Ilyas Chattha

Punjab Borderland (eBook, PDF)

Mobility, Materiality and Militancy, 1947-1987

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Offers insights into how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was made, subverted, and transformed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009082068
• Artikelnr.: 70909271

Autorenporträt

Ilyas Chattha teaches History at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. He was previously based at the Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, University of Southampton, and has also been associated with the University of Warwick and SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Partition and Locality (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps and Photographs
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Note on Transliteration
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Making of the Border
2. Cross-Border Flows
3. Illicit Cities: Contraband Trade between Lahore and Amritsar
4. Illicit Global Gold Trade and Wagah - Attari Crossing
5. The Making of Contraband Culture: People and Poetics
6. The Regulation of Cross-Border Flows, and State Patronage
7. Guns, Drugs, and the End of the 'Good Old Days'
Conclusion: Between Open and Closed Borders
Selected Bibliography
Index.