Bengal Borderland - Beyond State and Nation in South Asia

Informationen zum Autor Willem van Schendel is Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and heads the Asia department of the International Institute of Social History at Amsterdam. Formerly, he held the chair of Comparative History at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Klappentext A look at South Asia beyond state and nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures, Plates, Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Studying Borderlands, 2. Partition Studies; 3. Radcliffe's Fateful Line; 4. A Patchwork Border; 5. Security the Territory; 6. Defiance and Accommodation; 7. The Flow of Goods; 8. Narratives of Border Crossing; 9. Migrants, Fences and Deportation; 10. Rebels and Bandits; 11. 'Rifle Raj' and the Killer Border; 12. Nation and Borderland; 13. Conclusion: Beyond State and Nation; Appendix, References, Index

Product details

• Authors: Willem Van Schendel, Willem van Schendel
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2004
• EAN: 9781843311454
• ISBN: 978-1-84331-145-4
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: Anthem South Asian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Myanmar, Pakistan, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Bangladesh, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, India, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, Myanmar (Burma), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), HISTORY / Asia / South / India