Borderland Politics In Northern India

Author : Yu-Wen Chen,Chih-yu Shih
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317605171

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Borderland Politics in Northern India by Yu-Wen Chen,Chih-yu Shih Pdf

The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians’ self-identity and self-determination. Borderland Politics in Northern India is a collection of essays, giving detailed accounts of the many different ways that people throughout India understand their homeland, the territory where they live, and the broader region to which they belong. Mona Chettri looks at the Gorkha community in the Darjeeling hills to the northeast, Manjeet Baruah examines Assam, and L. Lam Khan Piang explores the dispersion of the Zo people throughout many northeastern states. In the northwest, Aijaz Ashraf Wani illustrates how Jammu and Kashmir state is severed along complex regional, religious, and ethnic lines. This book is an invaluable source for readers interested in comparative studies of borderlands globally. It also contributes to South Asian studies broadly conceived, to Indian border studies, and to local social, cultural, and political histories of the constituent border regions of Northern India. This book was published as a special issue of Asian Ethnicity.

Author : Sanghamitra Misra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136197215

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Becoming a Borderland by Sanghamitra Misra Pdf

This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges as fragments, this book sees these perspectives as continuing to be entrapped in a civilizational approach to history writing. Beginning in the pre-colonial period where it focuses on the negotiated character of state-formation during the Mughal imperium, the book then enters the space of the colonial where it looks at some of the early interventions of the East India Company. The analysis of markets as transmitters of authority highlights an important argument that the book makes. Peasantization and the introduction of the notion of the sedentary agriculturist as the productive subject also come up for a detailed discussion, along with economic change and property settlements, which are seen as important ways through which the institution of colonial legality got entrenched in the region. Underlining the interface between the political economy and practices of cultural studies, the book also explores the connections between speech, production of counter narratives of historical memory, political culture and economy, with a focus on the cultural production of a borderland identity that was marked by hyphenated existence between proto- 'Bengal' and proto- 'Assam'.

Author : Saṅghamitrā Miśra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Borderlands
ISBN : 1138044555

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Becoming a Borderland by Saṅghamitrā Miśra Pdf

Author : Kunal Mukherjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429677625

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Conflict in India and China's Contested Borderlands by Kunal Mukherjee Pdf

For a long time, India and China have been seen as the rising economic giants on the Asiatic mainland. Studies of the conflicts which have plagued the borderlands of India and China however have tended to only analyse individual case studies without attempting to compare and contrast the situation in these conflicts. This book compares and contrasts the situation in India’s disputed borderlands – Kashmir and the Indian north eastern states – with China’s contested borderlands – Xinjiang and Tibet. The book looks at the root causes of the conflict and how these conflicts have evolved and changed their character with the passage of time. Analysing how the countries have dealt with their territorial disputes from the 50’s till more recent times, the author shows to what extent these state policies have exacerbated the already strained situation. Using primary data collected primarily through interviews, from the people/inhabitants of these conflict zones, the book throws new light on the problem. This bottom up approach allows the people to speak and provides a different understanding of the nature of the conflict, which may very well be the way forward for long lasting peace. A comparative study of the conflicts in the contested borderlands of China and India, the book will be of interest to scholars studying Asian security studies and Asian Politics particularly and Defence and Security Studies more generally.

Author : David N. Gellner
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822377306

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Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia by David N. Gellner Pdf

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

Author : Kunal Mukherjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367663058

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Conflict in India and China's Contested Borderlands by Kunal Mukherjee Pdf

For a long time, India and China have been seen as the rising economic giants on the Asiatic mainland. Studies of the conflicts which have plagued the borderlands of India and China however have tended to only analyse individual case studies without attempting to compare and contrast the situation in these conflicts. This book compares and contrasts the situation in India's disputed borderlands - Kashmir and the Indian north eastern states - with China's contested borderlands - Xinjiang and Tibet. The book looks at the root causes of the conflict and how these conflicts have evolved and changed their character with the passage of time. Analysing how the countries have dealt with their territorial disputes from the 50's till more recent times, the author shows to what extent these state policies have exacerbated the already strained situation. Using primary data collected primarily through interviews, from the people/inhabitants of these conflict zones, the book throws new light on the problem. This bottom up approach allows the people to speak and provides a different understanding of the nature of the conflict, which may very well be the way forward for long lasting peace. A comparative study of the conflicts in the contested borderlands of China and India, the book will be of interest to scholars studying Asian security studies and Asian Politics particularly and Defence and Security Studies more generally.

Author : Duncan McDuie-Ra
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048525362

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Borderland City in New India by Duncan McDuie-Ra Pdf

While India has been a popular subject of scholarly analysis in the past decade, the majority of that attention has been focused on its major cities. This volume instead explores contemporary urban life in a smaller city located in India's Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change, showing how this city has been profoundly affected by armed conflict, militarism, displacement, interethnic tensions, and the expansion of neoliberal capitalism.

Author : Antia Mato Bouzas
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789048543991

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Kashmir as a Borderland by Antia Mato Bouzas Pdf

*Kashmir as a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Belonging across the Line of Control* examines the Kashmir dispute from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and within the theoretical frame of border studies. It draws on the experiences of those living in these territories such as divided families, traders, cultural and social activists. Kashmir is a borderland, that is, a context for spatial transformations, where the resulting interactions can be read as a process of 'becoming' rather than of 'being'. The analysis of this borderland shows how the conflict is manifested in territory, in specific locations with a geopolitical meaning, evidencing the discrepancy between 'representation' and the 'living'. The author puts forward the concept of belonging as a useful category for investigating more inclusive political spaces.

Author : Angma Dey Jhala
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199096916

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An Endangered History by Angma Dey Jhala Pdf

An Endangered History examines the transcultural, colonial history of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, c. 1798–1947. This little-studied borderland region lies on the crossroads of Bangladesh, India, and Burma and is inhabited by several indigenous peoples. They observe a diversity of religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, animism, and Christianity; speak Tibeto-Burmese dialects intermixed with Persian and Bengali idioms; and practise jhum or slash-and-burn agriculture. This book investigates how British administrators from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries used European systems of knowledge, such as botany, natural history, gender, enumerative statistics, and anthropology, to construct these indigenous communities and their landscapes. In the process, they connected the region to a dynamic, global map, and classified its peoples through the reifying language of religion, linguistics, race, and nation.

Author : Anita Lama
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367569094

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Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands by Anita Lama Pdf

This book analyses the relationship between symbolic violence, inequality and ethnicity and addresses the question of unequal integration of small ethnic groups into state structures by using the Limbus of the Northeastern Indian Borderlands as a case study.

Author : Dilip K. Chakrabarti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : India
ISBN : 8173055947

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The Borderlands and Boundaries of the Indian Subcontinent by Dilip K. Chakrabarti Pdf

Author : Malini Sur
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812297768

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Jungle Passports by Malini Sur Pdf

Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim "frontier peasants," "savage mountaineers," and Christian "ethnic minorities," suspecting them to be disloyal subjects, spies, and traitors. In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of these people to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the cattle and garments upon which their livelihoods depend against a background of violence, scarcity, and India's construction of one of the world's longest and most highly militarized border fences. Jungle Passports recasts established notions of citizenship and mobility along violent borders. Sur shows how the division of sovereignties and distinct regimes of mobility and citizenship push undocumented people to undertake perilous journeys across previously unrecognized borders every day. Paying close attention to the forces that shape the life-worlds of deportees, refugees, farmers, smugglers, migrants, bureaucrats, lawyers, clergy, and border troops, she reveals how reciprocity and kinship and the enforcement of state violence, illegality, and border infrastructures shape the margins of life and death. Combining years of ethnographic and archival fieldwork, her thoughtful and evocative book is a poignant testament to the force of life in our era of closed borders, insularity, and "illegal migration."

Author : Farhana Ibrahim,Tanuja Kothiyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108967570

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South Asian Borderlands by Farhana Ibrahim,Tanuja Kothiyal Pdf

This is an interdisciplinary volume exploring a range of historical, anthropological and literary ideas and issues in South Asian Borderlands. Going beyond the territorial and geo-political imaginaries of contemporary borderlands in South Asia, chapters in this book engage with the questions of sovereignty, control, policing as well as continuing affections across politically divided borderlands. Modern conceptions of nationhood have created categories of legality and illegality among historically, socially, economically and emotionally connected residents of South Asian borderlands. This volume provides unique insights into the interconnected lives and histories of these borderland spaces and communities.

Author : Archana Upadhyay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857713568

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India's Fragile Borderlands by Archana Upadhyay Pdf

There is a danger in the West of viewing terrorism exclusively through the prism of 9/11. This ground-breaking examination of terrorism in North East India demonstrates how grave a mistake this is. The nature of terrorism is the subject of ever-increasing scrutiny and there are many lessons to be learned from India's borderlands. Terrorism, fostered at first by post-colonial resentments, took root in the region because of an increased sense of cultural identity and perceived discrimination and exclusion by the Indian state. This book examines the long term effects of terrorism on the population of North East India - where the best-known conflict is the Naga tribe's ongoing campaign for a greater Nagaland - as well as its international consequences. "India's Fragile Borderlands" offers a comprehensive study of the nature, origins and history of terrorism in India's North East within an international perspective. Sharing borders with China, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar (Burma) and Bhutan, the region abounds in nationalist, separatist and even religious organizations that have used terrorism as a strategy to achieve their aims. Archana Upadhyay explores the complex and specific ideologies of these groups while highlighting the cross-border links and connections with organized crime that funds the violence in the region. This important new book includes many insights into the nature of terrorism in India's northeastern frontiers and will be invaluable for students of politics, history and International Relations.

Author : Thomas Hungerford Holdich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108046220

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The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900 by Thomas Hungerford Holdich Pdf

This work of 1901 describes the geography and border disputes of the north-west frontier, including the Second Anglo-Afghan War.