Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands

Culture, Politics, Place
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6298-932-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Asian Borderlands

Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place is an ethnography of culture and politics in Monyul, a Tibetan Buddhist cultural region in west Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. For nearly three centuries, Monyul was part of the Tibetan state, and the Monpas — as the communities inhabiting this region are collectively known — participated in trans-Himalayan trade and pilgrimage. Following the colonial demarcation of the Indo-Tibetan boundary in 1914, the fall of the Tibetan state in 1951, and the India-China boundary war in 1962, Monyul was gradually integrated into India and the Monpas became a Scheduled Tribe. In 2003, the Monpas began a demand for autonomy under the leadership of Tsona Gontse Rinpoche. This book examines the narratives and politics of the autonomy movement regarding language, place-names, and trans-border kinship against the backdrop of the India-China border dispute. It explores how the Monpas negotiate multiple identities to imagine new forms of community that transcend regional and national borders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gohain, Swargajyoti

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction: Imagined Places

Chapter 1: Field

Chapter 2: Locality

Chapter 3: Connections

Chapter 4: Periphery

Chapter 5: Region

Conclusion: Corridors, Networks, and Nodes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gohain, Swargajyoti
Swargajyoti Gohain teaches Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University, India. She has published widely on borders, state, culture, politics, and Tibetan Buddhist communities in Northeast India and the Himalayan region.