
Borderland Politics in Northern India
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
91 pages
978-0-367-73960-7 (ISBN)
Description
The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians' self-identity and self-determination. Borderland Politics in Northern India is a collection of essays, giving detailed accounts of the many different ways that people throughout India understand their homeland, the territory where they live, and the broader region to which they belong. Mona Chettri looks at the Gorkha community in the Darjeeling hills to the northeast, Manjeet Baruah examines Assam, and L. Lam Khan Piang explores the dispersion of the Zo people throughout many northeastern states. In the northwest, Aijaz Ashraf Wani illustrates how Jammu and Kashmir state is severed along complex regional, religious, and ethnic lines. This book is an invaluable source for readers interested in comparative studies of borderlands globally. It also contributes to South Asian studies broadly conceived, to Indian border studies, and to local social, cultural, and political histories of the constituent border regions of Northern India.
This book was published as a special issue of Asian Ethnicity.
This book was published as a special issue of Asian Ethnicity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-73960-7 (9780367739607)
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Yu-Wen Chen | Chih-Yu Shih
Borderland Politics in Northern India
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04/2016
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Yu-Wen Chen | Chih-Yu Shih
Borderland Politics in Northern India
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04/2016
1st Edition
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Yu-Wen Chen | Chih-Yu Shih
Borderland Politics in Northern India
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10/2014
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Persons
This book is edited by Yu-Wen Chen with the co-operation of Chih-yu Shih (National Taiwan University). Professor Chen is executive editor of Asian Ethnicity and associate professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University. She previously worked at University College Cork (Ireland) and Academia Sinica (Taiwan).
Editor
Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Content
1. Borderland politics in northern India 2. Space and community between the local and the global: two examples from the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam 3. Choosing the Gorkha: at the crossroads of class and ethnicity in the Darjeeling hills 4. Ethnic identities and the dynamics of regional and sub-regional assertions in Jammu and Kashmir 5. Research note: Ethnic mobilisation for decolonisation: colonial legacy (the case of the Zo people in Northeast India)