1st Edition

South Asia Boundaries, Borders and Beyond

Edited By Dhananjay Tripathi, Sanjay Chaturvedi Copyright 2022
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

Post-colonial and post-partition South Asia, one of the fastest-growing and yet one of the least integrated regions of the world, is marked by both optimism and pessimism. This intriguing dichotomy of strength and weakness, security and insecurity, hope and fear, connections and disconnects underpins South Asia’s regionalism conundrum and gives birth to borders and boundaries – both material and... Read more

Introduction – South Asia: Boundaries, Borders and Beyond

Dhananjay Tripathi and Sanjay Chaturvedi

1. Re-engaging the “International”: A Social History of the Trans-Himalayan Borderlands

Nimmi Kurian

2. Borders and Bordering Practices: A Case Study of Jaisalmer District on India–Pakistan Border

Krishnendra Meena

3. Portraying the “Other” in Textbooks and Movies: The Mental Borders and Their Implications for India–Pakistan Relations

Dhananjay Tripathi and Vaishali Raghuvanshi

4. Pakistan’s Border Policies and Security Dynamics along the Pakistan–Afghanistan Border

Lacin Idil Oztig

5. The Status of Durand Line under International Law: An International Law Approach to the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier Dispute

Fawad Poya

6. No Mountain Too High? Assessing the Trans-territoriality of the Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative

Jayashree Vivekanandan

7. Analysis of a Parallel Informal Exchange Rate System in Indo-Bhutanese Border Towns

Ankur Sharma

8. Gaining a Ghetto: The Resettlement of Partition-affected Bengalis in New Delhi’s Chittaranjan Park

Anubhav Roy

Biography

Dhananjay Tripathi teaches International Relations at South Asian University, New Delhi. He specializes in South Asian Borders. He has authored one, edited one and co-edited one book, and also contributed in several edited volumes and reputed international journals. He is editorial board member of prestigious journals like Journal of Borderlands Studies (Routledge); Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; and BIG Review.

Sanjay Chaturvedi teaches International Relations at South Asian University, New Delhi. He has extensively written on South Asian borders, partition, critical geopolitics and maritime South Asia. He has authored two, co-authored three and co-edited eight books. Chief Editor of Journal of the Indian Ocean Region (Routledge), he serves on the editorial board of several reputed international journals.