Frontier Complex - Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note on the Text; Introduction; 1. Territory before Borderlines: Trade, Cosmology, and Modes of Seeing in Pre-Colonial Ladakh; 2. Surveys: Boundary-Making Principles, Mapping, and the Problem with Watersheds; 3. Communication: Roads, Regulation, and the British Joint Commissioners; 4. Reading the Border: Gazetteers, Tribute Missions, and the Problem with Goats; 5. Trans-Frontier Men: Invasion Anxieties and Frontier Heroes; 6. The Birth of Geopolitics: Frontier Experts, Boundary Commissions, and Trans-frontier Information; 7. Lines of Control: From Empire to Nation-State; Epilogue.

About the author

Kyle J. Gardner is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University.

Product details

• Authors: Kyle J Gardner, Kyle J. Gardner, Kyle J. (George Washington University Gardner, GARDNER KYLE J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781108840590
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84059-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; China, 20th Century, Geopolitics, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Asian History, Historical Geography, HISTORY / Asia / South / General