The Punjab Borderland: Mobility, Materiality and Militancy, 1947-1987

ISBN-13: 9781316517956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 330 str.

Ilyas Chattha

Opis

Offers insights into how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was made, subverted, and transformed.

Recenzje

'This work is a pioneering study that adds to the growing understanding that linkages between the Pakistan and Indian Punjabis persisted long after the drawing of the Radcliffe boundary. Ilyas Chattha reveals how smuggling impacted on the local political economy of border areas. Drawing on access to previously unexplored local police records, he dispels the myths that the border was closed, even in the wake of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War. His findings are highly significant not only for the history of the Punjab region, but for the understanding of the post-independence Pakistan state.' Ian Talbot, Professor in History of Modern South Asia at the University of Southampton

Spis treści

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.