1st Edition
Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India
By Farhana Ibrahim
Copyright 2009
252 Pages
by
Routledge India
252 Pages
by
Routledge India
252 Pages
by
Routledge India
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This book is an anthropological study located along India‘s western border with Pakistan. The core arguments are situated within the context of contemporary religious nationalism, communal strife, and border politics in the Indian state of Gujarat. It seeks to understand how, within these contexts, a region becomes a meaningful place for its inhabi
1. Imagining a Region 2. Migration, Memory, and Affect: Counter-Perspectives to Asmita 3. Defining a Border: Religion, Region, and Nation 4. Pastoralists, Islam, and the State: Religion and Settlement of the Border 5. Settlement, Sovereignty, and History 6. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index
