Author: Ilyas Chattha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316517950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Offers insights into how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was made, subverted, and transformed.
Author: Ilyas Chattha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100908206X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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The Punjab Borderland offers a fascinating insight into how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was made, subverted, and transformed. Dispelling the established historiographical narratives of an increasingly militarised border that presents as the epitome of animosity and a classic example of inter-state tension, this book offers a corrective to these accounts by bringing out narratives of border crossings and social relations built on mutual benefit and trust. It conceptualises the making of the vast contraband as an analytical tool, not merely as borderland societies' modes for evading the state imposition of a partitioned geography on their local lifeworld, but as a catalyst for enabling social mobility and political empowerment for the population involved and a thriving market for consumption in the urban centres. It reveals a 'bottom-up' history of the Punjab border and the invention of the borderland society, narrating a story with local meanings and transnational dimensions.
Author: Ainslie Thomas Embree
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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The Author`S Of The Various Essays Presented Here Have Undertaken To Analyze And Describe The Stresses, Strains And Conflicts That Have Ensured As The Western Borderlands (Baluchistan, Nwfp) Became Involved In The Processes Of Modern Politics And Of Integration Into Pakistan. Contents: Political Problems Of A Borderland - Pakistan`S Imperial Legacy - The Segmentary Linkage System: Its Applicability To Pakistan`S Political Structure - Continuities In Borderland Politics - Economic Change In Baluchistan: Process Of Integration In The Larger Economy Of Pakistan - Brahui Political Organization And The National State - Pushtunistan: Afghan Domestic Politics And Relations With Pakistan. Without Dustjacket, Inscribed On The First End Page, Bookseller`S Stamp On The First End Page, Text Clean, Condition Good.
Author: Lucy Chester
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526117630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonization and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the competing interests, both internal and international, that influenced the actions of the various major players, it highlights British efforts to maintain a grip on India even as the decolonization process spun out of control. Drawing on extensive archival research in India, Pakistan, and Britain, combined with innovative use of cartographic sources, the book paints a vivid picture of both the partition process and the Radcliffe line’s impact on Punjab. This book will be vital reading for scholars and students of colonialism, decolonization, partition, and borderlands studies, while providing anyone interested in South Asia’s independence with a highly readable account of one of its most controversial episodes.
Author: Andréanne Bissonnette
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000191036
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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This book addresses the recent evolution of borderlines around the world as an attempt to control transnational movements with a view to securitization of borders rooted in the need to control mobility and preserve national identities. This book moves beyond physical borders and studies new manifestations of borders such as technological and symbolic walls. It brings together scholars from various academic fields such as geography, political science, and border studies to examine the various movements, functions and articulations of international borders. It explores two main issues: how international borders have become enforced lines of demarcation and division, reinforcing national identity and impacting national and regional dynamics; and the material and immaterial, discursive and concrete expressions of borders and the impacts of the transformation of bodies into threat to be monitored, as daily lives become sites of border enforcement. Offering multidisciplinary insights on the growing phenomenon of border walls, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Border Studies, European Studies, International Relations, Political Geography, and Regional Studies.
Author: Syed Sami Raza
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367647698
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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To understand the historical complexity of the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderland, this book brings together some of the foremost thinkers of this borderland and seeks to approach its various problematic dimensions. This book presents an overview of the geopolitics of the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderland and approaches the topic from different methods and perspectives. It focuses on some of the least debated dimensions of this borderland, for instance, the status of women in the tribal-border culture, the legal status of aliens in the making of the border, material and immaterial manifestations of the border, political aesthetics of the border, and the identity crisis on the border. Given the fact that its authors come from diverse backgrounds, academic and geographic, they make an enriching contribution. Employing their expertise in different theories and methods, they focus on local memories, literature, and wisdom to understand the border. This book seeks to give voice to the plight of local tribal people, their culture, and land on an advanced academic level and makes it legible for the international audience. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Geopolitics.
Author: Willem van Schendel
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843311453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
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'The Bengal Borderland' constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the 'Bengal Borderland') has been a core theme in Partition studies, these crucial borderlands have, remarkably, been largely ignored by historians.
Author: Pradeep Damodaran
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9351950247
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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For most residents of India’s bustling metros and big towns, nationality and citizenship are privileges that are often taken for granted. The country’s periphery, however, is dotted with sleepy towns and desolate villages whose people, simply by having more in common with citizens of neighbouring nations than with their own, have to prove their Indian identity every day. It is these specks on the country’s map that Pradeep Damodaran rediscovers as he travels across India’s borders for a little more than a year, experiencing life in far-flung areas that rarely feature in mainstream conversations. In Borderlands, he recounts his encounters with the war-weary fishermen of Dhanushkodi at the southernmost tip of Tamil Nadu, who live in fear both of the Indian Coast Guard and the Sri Lankan navy; farmers in Hussainiwala, a village on Punjab’s border with Pakistan, who are unwilling to build concrete houses for fear of them being destroyed in the ever looming war; Tamil traders of Moreh, a town straddling the Manipur–Myanmar border, who pay bribes to at least ten different militant organizations so they can safely conduct their business; and ex-servicemen in Campbell Bay who were resettled there three generations ago and have long been forgotten by the mainland. From Minicoy in Lakshadweep to Taki in West Bengal, Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh to Raxaul in Bihar, Damodaran’s compelling narrative reinforces the idea that, in India, a land of contrasts and contradictions, beauty and diversity, conflict comes in many forms.
Author: Farhana Ibrahim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108967574
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages :
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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: Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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