Borderland Politics in Northern India

ISBN-13: 9780367739607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 91 str.

Yu-Wen Chen; Chih-Yu Shih

Opis

Borderland Politics in Northern India provides a snapshot of the complex ethnic issues in India’s northern borderlands, accounting for the diversity in how residents of the many lands and communities of India understand their homeland.

This book was published as a special issue of Asian Ethnicity.

Spis treści

1. Borderland politics in northern India  2. Space and community between the local and the global: two examples from the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam  3. Choosing the Gorkha: at the crossroads of class and ethnicity in the Darjeeling hills  4. Ethnic identities and the dynamics of regional and sub-regional assertions in Jammu and Kashmir  5. Research note: Ethnic mobilisation for decolonisation: colonial legacy (the case of the Zo people in Northeast India)

O autorze

This book is edited by Yu-Wen Chen with the co-operation of Chih-yu Shih (National Taiwan University). Professor Chen is executive editor of Asian Ethnicity and associate professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University. She previously worked at University College Cork (Ireland) and Academia Sinica (Taiwan).