Borderland Lives in Northern South AsiaDavid N. Gellner Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia provides valuable new ethnographic insights into life along some of the most contentious borders in the world. The collected essays portray existence at different points across India's northern frontiers and, in one instance, along borders within India. Whether discussing Shi'i Muslims striving to be patriotic Indians in the Kashmiri district of Kargil or Bangladeshis living uneasily in an enclave surrounded by Indian territory, the contributors show that state borders in Northern South Asia are complex sites of contestation. India's borders with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, China, and Nepal encompass radically different ways of life, a whole spectrum of relationships to the state, and many struggles with urgent identity issues. Taken together, the essays show how, by looking at state-making in diverse, border-related contexts, it is possible to comprehend Northern South Asia's various nation-state projects without relapsing into conventional nationalist accounts. Contributors. Jason Cons, Rosalind Evans, Nicholas Farrelly, David N. Gellner, Radhika Gupta, Sondra L. Hausner, Annu Jalais, Vibha Joshi, Nayanika Mathur, Deepak K. Mishra, Anastasia Piliavsky, Jeevan R. Sharma, Willem van Schendel |
Contents
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On the Social Reproduction of State Demarcation in Rajasthan Anastasia Piliavsky | 24 |
Border Dynamics in Kargil Radhika Gupta | 47 |
Three Naturalizing the HimalayaasBorderin Uttarakhand Nayanika Mathur | 72 |
Nepali Rituals of Border Crossing Sondra L Hausner Jeevan R Sharma | 94 |
On the Lhotshampas of Bhutan Rosalind Evans | 117 |
The State and the Political Economy of Development in Arunachal Pradesh Deepak K Mishra | 141 |
The Issue of Greater Nagaland or Nagalim Vibha Joshi | 163 |
Eight Nodes of Control in a Southeast Asian Borderland Nicholas Farrelly | 194 |
Narrating Territory Possession and Dispossession at the IndiaBangladesh Border Jason Cons | 214 |
Subaltern Partition Stories along Bengals Southern Frontier Annu Jalais | 245 |
Making the Most of Sensitive Borders Willem van Schendel | 266 |
Contributors | 273 |
Bibliography | 277 |
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