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oapen-20.500.12657-317972021-11-04T14:10:38Z Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia Gellner, David History India Naga people Nagaland Nepal bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history This book 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. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:29 2020-04-01T13:49:49Z 2020-04-01T13:49:49Z 2014-03-03 book 625238 OCN: 987452870 9780822377306 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31797 eng application/pdf n/a 625238.pdf Duke University Press 10.26530/oapen_625238 100325 10.26530/oapen_625238 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822377306 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham NC 100325 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This book 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.
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