Women in Indian Borderlands is an ethnographic compilation on the
complex interrelationship between gender and political borders in
South Asia. The book focuses on the border regions of West Bengal,
Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India. The chapters in the book
examine the stories of women whose lives are intertwined with
borders, and who resist everyday violence in all its myriad forms.
They show how most of the traditional efforts to make geopolitical
regions more secure end up privileging a masculine definition of
security that only results in feminine insecurities. These essays
discuss how women negotiate their differences with a state that,
though democratic, denies space to differences based on ethnicity,
religion, class or gender. Borders are interpreted as zones where
the jurisdiction of one state ends and that of the other begins.
What comes out is the startling revelation that women not only live
on the borders, but in many ways, form them.
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