Gellner Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7730-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 318 Seiten

This volumes presents assays on the peoples living along India's borders with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, China, and Nepal reveal Northern South Asia as a region encompassing radically different ways of life and relationships to the state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gellner, David N.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Introduction. Northern South Asia's Diverse Borders, from Kachchh to Mizoram / David N. Gellner 1

1. Borders without Borderlands: On the Social Reproduction of State Demarcation in Rajasthan / Anastasia Piliavsky 24

2. Allegiance and Alienation: Border Dynamics in Kargil / Radhika Gupta 47

3. Naturalizing the Himalaya-as-Border in Uttarakhand / Nayanika Mathur 72

4. On the Way to India: Nepali Rituals of Border Crossing / Sondra L. Hausner and Jeevan R. Sharma 94

5. The Perils of Being a Borderland People: On the Lhotshampas of Bhutan / Rosalind Evans 117

6. Developing the Border: The State and the Political Economy of Development in Arunachal Pradesh / Deepak K. Mishra 141

7. The Micropolitics of Borders: The Issue of Greater Nagaland (or Nagalim) / Vibha Joshi 163

8. Nodes of Control in a South(east) Asian Borderland / Nicholas Farrelly 194

9. Histories of Belonging(s): Narrating Territory, Possession, and Dispossession at the India-Bangladesh Border / Jason Cons 214

10. Geographies and Identities: Subaltern Partition Stories along Bengal's Southern Frontier / Annu Jalais 245

Afterword. Making the Most of "Sensitive" Borders / Willem van Schendel 266

Contributors 273

Bibliography 277

Index 303

Über Autor(innen)

David N. Gellner is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He is the editor of Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia and Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia and coeditor (with Krishna Hachhethu) of Local Democracy in South Asia: Microprocesses of Democratization in Nepal and Its Neighbours.