Malini Sur

Jungle Passports

Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border

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Produktbeschreibung

In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh and their efforts to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the cattle and garments upon which their livelihoods depend.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252798
• ISBN-10: 0812252799
• Artikelnr.: 60321133

Autorenporträt

Malini Sur is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Timeline
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Rowmari-Tura Road
Chapter 2. Rice Wars and Nation Building
Chapter 3. Cow Smuggling and Fang Fung
Chapter 4. Kinship, Identities, and "Jungle Passports"
Chapter 5. Fear, Reverence, and the Fence
Chapter 6. Bangladeshi "Suspects" and Indian "Citizens" in Assam
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments