Jungle Passports - Fences, Mobility, Citizenship At Northeast India Bangladesh Border

List of contents

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

About the author

Malini Sur

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Malini Sur
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780812252798
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5279-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Ethnography of Political Viole; The Ethnography of Political Violence
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology