TY - BOOK AU - Ibrahim,Farhana AU - Kothiyal,Tanuja TI - South Asian borderlands: mobility, history, affect AV - DS341 U1 - 954 ib7 So PY - 2021/// KW - Borderlands KW - South Asia KW - Boundaries KW - Social aspects KW - Transnationalism KW - India, North KW - History KW - Himalaya Mountains Region N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Paradise at the frontier : Kashmir as a political terrain and literary landscape in the Mughal Empire / Anubhuti Maurya -- Borders in the Age of Empire and nation-states : the honeycomb of borderlands : Kumaun, Western Tibet and Far Western Nepal / Vasudha Pande -- Borders, difference, recognition : on the cause(s) of Gorkhaland / Townsend Middleton -- Embattled frontiers and emerging spaces : transformation of the Tawang border / Swargajyoti Gohain -- Relative intimacies : belonging and difference in transnational families across the Bengal borderland / Sahana Ghosh -- Reading Parijat in Nepal : the poetics of radical feminsim negotiating self and nation / Malika Shakya -- Commodity journeys and market circuits : making borders "natural" in colonial Western Himalayas / Aniket Alam -- Frontiers, state and banditry in the Thar Desert in the nineteenth century / Tanuja Kothiyal -- Bureaucracy and border control : ethnographic perspectives on crime, police reform and "national security" in Kutch, 1948-52 / Farhana Ibrahim -- Frontier as resource : law, crime and sovereignty on the margins of empire / Eric Lewis Beverly N2 - "This book will help students and scholars understand and historicise the idea of borders and borderlands. Globally, refugees are pushing across state borders seeking homes away from sites of conflict, genocide or climate disasters, in the process creating new borderlands. A timely contribution, it brings together historians and anthropologists to understand the shifting concepts within South Asian borderlands"-- ER -