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Author:   Farhana Ibrahim (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) ,  Tanuja Kothiyal
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781108844512

ISBN 10:   1108844510
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   03 February 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Tanuja Kothiyal and Farhana Ibrahim; 1. Paradise at the Frontier: Kashmir as a Political Terrain and Literary Landscape in the Mughal Empire Anubhuti Maurya; 2. Borders in the Age of Empire and Nation-States: The Honeycomb of Borderlands – Kumaun, Western Tibet and Far Western Nepal Vasudha Pande; 3. Borders, Difference, Recognition: On the Cause(s) of Gorkhaland Townsend Middleton; 4. Embattled Frontiers and Emerging Spaces: Transformation of the Tawang Border Swargajyoti Gohain; 5. Relative Intimacies: Belonging and Difference in Transnational Families across the Bengal Borderland Sahana Ghosh; 6. Reading Parijat in Nepal: The Poetics of Radical Feminism Negotiating Self and Nation Mallika Shakya; 7. Commodity Journeys and Market Circuits: Making Borders 'Natural' in Colonial Western Himalayas Aniket Alam; 8. Frontiers, State and Banditry in the Thar Desert in the Nineteenth Century Tanuja Kothiyal; 9. Bureaucracy and Border Control: Ethnographic Perspectives on Crime, Police Reform, and 'national security' in Kutch, 1948–1952 Farhana Ibrahim; 10. Frontier as Resource: Law, Crime, and Sovereignty on the Margins of Empire Eric L. Beverley; Index.

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Farhana Ibrahim is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Tanuja Kothiyal is Professor of History in the School of Liberal Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi.

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