UID:
edocfu_9959244875302883
Format:
1 online resource (xlii, 253 p.) :
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maps.
ISBN:
93-5280-491-0
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1-282-50323-5
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9786612503238
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81-321-0484-6
Content:
This is a historical work on borders and bordered existences with special emphasis on the gender dimensions of these existences. The book is replete with the experiences of women geographically located on borders who, the author argues, define those borders as well as themselves.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Content; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Histories and Historians of Borders; Section I: Borders and their Pasts; 1 - Aliens in the Colonial World; 2 - Borders as Unsettled Markers: The Sino-Indian Border; 3 - The Line of Control: Kashmir; Section II: Life on the Border; 4 - Circles of Insecurity: The Border People; 5 - Negotiating Differences: The Indian State and its Women in the Borderlands; 6 - Mobile Diseases and the Border; Section III: Law and the Border; 7 - Border Laws and Conflicts in North-east India; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 81-321-0798-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 81-321-0226-6
Language:
English
