The Frontier Complex
Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962
Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-81425-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-81425-6 (ISBN)
Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial border-making practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and geography into politics. Despite a century of attempts, experts failed to produce a border through the mountainous Himalayas, leading to war between India and China in 1962.
Kyle J. Gardner reveals the transformation of the historical Himalayan entrepôt of Ladakh into a modern, disputed borderland through an examination of rare British, Indian, Ladakhi, and Kashmiri archival sources. In so doing, he provides both a history of the rise of geopolitics and the first comprehensive history of Ladakh's encounter with the British Empire. He examines how colonial border-making practices transformed geography into a political science and established principles that a network of imperial frontier experts would apply throughout the empire and bequeath to an independent India. Through analyzing the complex of imperial policies and practices, The Frontier Complex reveals how the colonial state transformed, and was transformed by, new ways of conceiving of territory. Yet, despite a century of attempts to craft a suitable border, the British failed. The result is an imperial legacy still playing out across the Himalayas.
Kyle J. Gardner reveals the transformation of the historical Himalayan entrepôt of Ladakh into a modern, disputed borderland through an examination of rare British, Indian, Ladakhi, and Kashmiri archival sources. In so doing, he provides both a history of the rise of geopolitics and the first comprehensive history of Ladakh's encounter with the British Empire. He examines how colonial border-making practices transformed geography into a political science and established principles that a network of imperial frontier experts would apply throughout the empire and bequeath to an independent India. Through analyzing the complex of imperial policies and practices, The Frontier Complex reveals how the colonial state transformed, and was transformed by, new ways of conceiving of territory. Yet, despite a century of attempts to craft a suitable border, the British failed. The result is an imperial legacy still playing out across the Himalayas.
Kyle J. Gardner is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University.
Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note on the Text; Introduction; 1. Territory before Borderlines: Trade, Cosmology, and Modes of Seeing in Pre-Colonial Ladakh; 2. Surveys: Boundary-Making Principles, Mapping, and the Problem with Watersheds; 3. Communication: Roads, Regulation, and the British Joint Commissioners; 4. Reading the Border: Gazetteers, Tribute Missions, and the Problem with Goats; 5. Trans-Frontier Men: Invasion Anxieties and Frontier Heroes; 6. The Birth of Geopolitics: Frontier Experts, Boundary Commissions, and Trans-frontier Information; 7. Lines of Control: From Empire to Nation-State; Epilogue.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 410 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-81425-5 / 1108814255 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-81425-6 / 9781108814256 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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