Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia provides valuable new
ethnographic insights into life along some of the most contentious
borders in the world. The collected essays portray existence at
different points across India's northern frontiers and, in one
instance, along borders within India. Whether discussing Shi'i
Muslims striving to be patriotic Indians in the Kashmiri district
of Kargil or Bangladeshis living uneasily in an enclave surrounded
by Indian territory, the contributors show that state borders in
Northern South Asia are complex sites of contestation. India's
borders with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, China, and Nepal
encompass radically different ways of life, a whole spectrum of
relationships to the state, and many struggles with urgent identity
issues. Taken together, the essays show how, by looking at
state-making in diverse, border-related contexts, it is possible to
comprehend Northern South Asia's various nation-state projects
without relapsing into conventional nationalist
accounts.Contributors. Jason Cons, Rosalind Evans, Nicholas
Farrelly, David N. Gellner, Radhika Gupta, Sondra L. Hausner, Annu
Jalais, Vibha Joshi, Nayanika Mathur, Deepak K. Mishra, Anastasia
Piliavsky, Jeevan R. Sharma, Willem van Schendel
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