South Asian Borderlands

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.

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.