The Punjab Borderland
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51795-6 (ISBN)
The Punjab Borderland offers a fascinating insight into how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was made, subverted, and transformed. Dispelling the established historiographical narratives of an increasingly militarised border that presents as the epitome of animosity and a classic example of inter-state tension, this book offers a corrective to these accounts by bringing out narratives of border crossings and social relations built on mutual benefit and trust. It conceptualises the making of the vast contraband as an analytical tool, not merely as borderland societies' modes for evading the state imposition of a partitioned geography on their local lifeworld, but as a catalyst for enabling social mobility and political empowerment for the population involved and a thriving market for consumption in the urban centres. It reveals a 'bottom-up' history of the Punjab border and the invention of the borderland society, narrating a story with local meanings and transnational dimensions.
Ilyas Chattha teaches History at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. He was previously based at the Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, University of Southampton, and has also been associated with the University of Warwick and SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Partition and Locality (Oxford University Press, 2012).
List of Maps and Photographs; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Note on Transliteration; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Making of the Border; 2. Cross-Border Flows; 3. Illicit Cities: Contraband Trade between Lahore and Amritsar; 4. Illicit Global Gold Trade and Wagah – Attari Crossing; 5. The Making of Contraband Culture: People and Poetics; 6. The Regulation of Cross-Border Flows, and State Patronage; 7. Guns, Drugs, and the End of the 'Good Old Days'; Conclusion: Between Open and Closed Borders; Selected Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.03.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 570 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-316-51795-0 / 1316517950 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-316-51795-6 / 9781316517956 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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