Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Paradise at the Frontier: Kashmir as a Political Terrain and Literary Landscape in the Mughal Empire
- 2 Borders in the Age of Empire and Nation-States: The Honeycomb of Borderlands: Kumaun, Western Tibet and Far Western Nepal
- 3 Borders, Difference, Recognition: On the Cause(s) of Gorkhaland
- 4 Embattled Frontiers and Emerging Spaces: Transformation of the Tawang Border
- 5 Relative Intimacies: Belonging and Difference in Transnational Families across the Bengal Borderland
- 6 Reading Parijat in Nepal: The Poetics of Radical Feminism Negotiating Self and Nation
- 7 Commodity Journeys and Market Circuits: Making Borders ‘Natural’ in Colonial Western Himalayas
- 8 Frontiers, State and Banditry in the Thar Desert in the Nineteenth Century
- 9 Bureaucracy and Border Control: Ethnographic Perspectives on Crime, Police Reform and ‘National Security’ in Kutch, 1948–52
- 10 Frontier as Resource: Law, Crime and Sovereignty on the Margins of Empire
- About the Contributors
- Index
List of Figures and Tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 September 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Paradise at the Frontier: Kashmir as a Political Terrain and Literary Landscape in the Mughal Empire
- 2 Borders in the Age of Empire and Nation-States: The Honeycomb of Borderlands: Kumaun, Western Tibet and Far Western Nepal
- 3 Borders, Difference, Recognition: On the Cause(s) of Gorkhaland
- 4 Embattled Frontiers and Emerging Spaces: Transformation of the Tawang Border
- 5 Relative Intimacies: Belonging and Difference in Transnational Families across the Bengal Borderland
- 6 Reading Parijat in Nepal: The Poetics of Radical Feminism Negotiating Self and Nation
- 7 Commodity Journeys and Market Circuits: Making Borders ‘Natural’ in Colonial Western Himalayas
- 8 Frontiers, State and Banditry in the Thar Desert in the Nineteenth Century
- 9 Bureaucracy and Border Control: Ethnographic Perspectives on Crime, Police Reform and ‘National Security’ in Kutch, 1948–52
- 10 Frontier as Resource: Law, Crime and Sovereignty on the Margins of Empire
- About the Contributors
- Index
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- South Asian BorderlandsMobility, History, Affect, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021