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Book/Printed Material Borderland lives in northern South Asia

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Title

  • Borderland lives in northern South Asia

Names

  • Gellner, David N.
  • Schendel, Willem van

Created / Published

  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Contents

  • Introduction: Northern South Asia's diverse borders, from Kachchh to Mizoram / David N. Gellner -- Borders without borderlands : on the social reproduction of state demarcation in Rajasthan / Anastasia Piliavsky -- Allegiance and alienation : border dynamics in Kargil / Radhika Gupta -- Naturalizing the Himalaya-as-border in Uttarakhand / Nayanika Mathur -- On the way to India : Nepali rituals of border crossing / Sondra L. Hausner and Jeevan R. Sharma -- The perils of being a borderland people : on the Lhotshampas of Bhutan / Rosalind Evans -- Developing the border : state and the political economy of development in Arunachal Pradesh / Deepak K. Mishra -- The micropolitics of borders : the issue of Greater Nagaland (or Nagalim) / Vibha Joshi -- Nodes of control in a South(east) Asian borderland / Nicholas Farrelly -- Histories of belonging(s) : narrating territory, possession, and dispossession at the India-Bangladesh border / Jason Cons -- Geographies and identities : subaltern partition stories along Bengal's southern frontier / Annu Jalais -- Afterword: Making the most of "sensitive" borders / Willem van Schendel.

Headings

  • -  South Asia--Boundaries--History
  • -  South Asia--Politics and government
  • -  South Asia--Relations
  • -  South Asia--Social conditions

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-302) and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (310 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DS341

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020715332

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  • Unrestricted online access

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Chicago citation style:

Gellner, David N, and Willem Van Schendel. Borderland lives in northern South Asia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715332/.

APA citation style:

Gellner, D. N. & Schendel, W. V. (2013) Borderland lives in northern South Asia. Durham: Duke University Press. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715332/.

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Gellner, David N, and Willem Van Schendel. Borderland lives in northern South Asia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020715332/>.