Preface  

1. Borders without Borderlands: On the Social Reproduction of State Demarcation in Rajasthan / Anastasia Piliavsky  

2. Allegiance and Alienation: Border Dynamics in Kargil / Radhika Gupta  

3. Naturalizing the Himalaya-as-Border in Uttarakhand / Nayanika Mathur  

4. On the Way to India: Nepali Rituals of Border Crossing / Sondra L. Hausner and Jeevan R. Sharma  

5. The Perils of Being a Borderland People: On the Lhotshampas of Bhutan / Rosalind Evans  

6. Developing the Border: State and the Political Economy of Development in Arunachal Pradesh / Deepak K. Mishra  

7. The Micropolitics of Borders: The Issue of Greater Nagaland (or Nagalim) / Vibha Joshi  

8. Nodes of Control in a South(east) Asian Borderland / Nicholas Farrelly  

9. Histories of Belonging(s): Narrating Territory, Possession, and Dispossession at the India-Bangladesh Border / Jason Cons  

10. Geographies and Identities: Subaltern Partition Stories along Bengal's Southern Frontier / Annu Jalais  

Afterword. Making the Most of "Sensitive" Borders / Willem van Schendel  

Contributors  

Bibliography  

Index  

David N. Gellner

Anastasia Piliavsky

Radhika Gupta

Nayanika Mathur

Sondra L. Hausner

Jeevan R. Sharma

Rosalind Evans

Deepak K. Mishra

Vibha Joshi

Nicholas Farrelly

Jason Cons

Annu Jalais

Willem van Schendel

"How better to transcend received wisdom about boundaries than by examining the tangled, puzzling, and mind-boggling variety of the 'frayed borders' between South Asia and its northern periphery? Originality, conceptual daring, and penetrating ethnographies undergird both the idea behind this volume and its execution. Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia marks a new stage in the scholarly literature on borders, puts the nation state in its (modest) place, and will serve as an inspiring and reflective point of intellectual departure for the field."—James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University

"Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia is an excellent collection of essays. It not only provides new empirical detail for comparative studies of borderlands globally, but also contributes to South Asian studies broadly conceived, to Indian border studies, and to local social, cultural, and political histories of all the constituent border regions of Northern South Asia."—David Ludden, author of Where Is Assam? Using Geographical History to Locate Current Social Realities

"The ubiquity of borders makes them key sites for comparative social research. . . . If there is one thing that the contributions to this book demonstrate, it is that borders vary locally in terms of regulatory regimes, symbolic significance, permeability, social advantage, and change over time. . . . Until recently…social scientists showed very little interest in studying [the borders of Northern South Asia]—let alone in studying them comparatively. As this book shows, that neglect is now a thing of the past."—Willem van Schendel, from the afterword

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