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The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and
economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently
found archive of a railway contractor's private and business
papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and
Scandinavian modern history, and ties south Sweden into the British
Empire. With deep insights into everyday work practices of Indian
and European contractors and manual labourers, the book establishes
a bridge across the globe, between two poor regions as sites of
extraction and industrial transformation, resulting from global
migration and capital flows. Drawing on rich archival sources such
as the Joseph Stephens Archive, Maharashtra State Archives, the
National Archives of India, and the British Library, the book
offers deep insights into everyday business practices of European
contractors in India, which were rarely documented and have
remained largely inaccessible so far. A unique look into the labour
and entrepreneurship practices under British colonial rule in
India, as well as its impact on the most transformative years of
modern southern Scandinavia, the book will be of great interest to
students, academics, and teachers of history, labour studies,
subaltern studies, colonialism, imperialism, economic history,
railways, economics, and Scandinavian and South Asian studies.
This volume investigates how, where and when subjects and citizens
come into being, assert themselves and exercise subjecthood or
citizenship in the formation of modern India. It argues for the
importance of understanding legal practice how rights are performed
in dispute and negotiation from the parliament and courts to street
corners and fiel
This volume investigates how, where and when subjects and citizens
come into being, assert themselves and exercise subjecthood or
citizenship in the formation of modern India. It argues for the
importance of understanding legal practice - how rights are
performed in dispute and negotiation - from the parliament and
courts to street corners and field sites. The essays in the book
explore themes such as land law and rights, court procedure,
freedom of speech, sex workers' mobilisation, refugee status,
adivasi people and non-state actors, and bring together studies
from across north India, spanning from early colonial to
contemporary times. Representing scholarship in history,
anthropology and political science that draws on wide-ranging field
and archival research, the volume will immensely benefit scholars,
students and researchers of development, history, political
science, sociology, anthropology, law and public policy.
Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces traces movements and
connections in a region known for its formidable obstacles to
mobility. Eight original essays and a conceptual introduction
engage with questions of networks and interconnection between
people across a bordered landscape. Mobility among the extremely
varied ecologies of south-western China, Myanmar and north-eastern
India, with their rugged terrain, high mountains, monsoon-fed
rivers and marshy lowlands, is certainly subject to friction. But
today, harsh political realities have created hard borders and
fractured this trans-Himalayan terrain. However, the closely
researched chapters in this book demonstrate that these borders
have not prevented an abundance of movements, connections and
flows. Mobility has always coexisted with friction here, but this
coexistence has been unsettled, giving this space its historical
shape and its contemporary dynamism. Introducing the concept of the
'corridor' as an analytical framework, this collection investigates
mobility and flows in this unique socio-political landscape.
The societies in the Himalayan borderlands have undergone
wide-ranging transformations, as the territorial reconfiguration of
modern nation-states since the mid-twentieth century and the
presently increasing trans-Himalayan movements of people, goods and
capital, reshape the livelihoods of communities, pulling them into
global trends of modernisation and regional discourses of national
belonging. This book explores the changes to native senses of
place, the conception of border - simultaneously as limitations and
opportunities - and what the authors call "affective boundaries,"
"livelihood reconstruction," and "trans-Himalayan modernities." It
addresses changing social, political, and environmental conditions
that acknowledge growing external connectivity even as it
emphasises the importance of place.
The works presented in this collection take environmental
scholarship in South Asia into novel territory by exploring how
questions of national identity become entangled with environmental
concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India. The essays
provide insight into the motivations of colonial and national
governments in controlling or managing nature, and bring into fresh
perspective the different kinds of regional political conflicts
that invoke nationalist sentiment through claims on nature. In
doing all this, the volume also offers new ways to think about
nationalism and, more specifically, nationalism in South Asia from
the vantage point of interdisciplinary environmental studies. The
contributors to this innovative volume show that manifestations of
nationalism have long and complex histories in South Asia.
Terrestrial entities, imagined in terms of dense ecological
networks of relationships, have often been the space or reference
point for national aspirations, as shared memories of Mother Nature
or appropriated economic, political, and religious geographies. In
recent times, different groups in South Asia have claimed and
appropriated ancient landscapes and territories for the purpose of
locating and justifying a specific and utopian version of nation by
linking its origin to their nature-mediated attachments to these
landscapes. The topics covered include forests, agriculture, marine
fisheries, parks, sacred landscapes, property rights, trade, and
economic development.
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