1st Edition

Borderland Politics in Northern India

Edited By Yu-Wen Chen, Chih-yu Shih Copyright 2015
99 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge

The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians’ self-identity and self-determination. Borderland Politics in Northern India is a collection of essays, giving detailed accounts of the many different ways that people throughout India understand their homeland, the territory where they live, and the broader region to which they... Read more

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)

Biography

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).