By Jason Cons
ISBN-10: 0295995521
ISBN-13: 9780295995526
Enclaves alongside the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic demanding situations to either states due to the fact that Partition in 1947. those items of India within Bangladesh, and vice versa, are areas within which nationwide safety, belonging, and keep watch over are proven in sharp aid. via ethnographic and historic research, Jason Cons argues that those areas are key destinations for rethinking the construction of territory in South Asia at the present time. delicate house examines the ways in which those parts mark a number anxieties over territory, land, and nationwide survival and lead us to think about why yes locations grow to be contentious, and infrequently violent, areas on the margins of country and state.
Offering classes for the examine of enclaves, traces of keep an eye on, limited components, grey areas, and different geographic anomalies, delicate house develops frameworks for figuring out the chronic confusions of land, neighborhood, and belonging in border zones. It extra presents how one can imagine prior the kinds of sovereignty and identification to reimagine territory in South Asia and beyond.
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