Midnight's borders : a people's history of modern India
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- ISBN: 9781612198583
- ISBN: 1612198589
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xv, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - Publisher: Brooklyn : Melville House, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2020
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-299) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: (my) Ishmael -- The Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Sar Hawza: trapped in the colonizer's map -- The India-Bangladesh border. Panitar: playing cricket in no-man's-land ; Near Jalpaiguri: "they stole my dreams" -- The India-China border. Tawang: cartographic confusion -- The India-Myanmar border. Nagaland: unimagined by my nation's cartography ; Nellie: stuck between remembering and forgetting ; Guwahati: tales of three detentions -- The India-Pakistan border. Kashmir: records of repression ; Kashmir today: the revocation of Article 370 ; Rajasthan: the tyranny of territory ; Fazilka: bunkered territory ; Sri Ganganagar: the tractor brigade ; Amritsar and New York: histories partitioned. |
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Subject: | Vijayan, Suchitra Travel India History 21st century India History 20th century Geopolitics India 1947- India Politics and government India Boundaries |
Genre: | Creative nonfiction. History. Informational works. Travel writing. Travel writing. Anecdotes. Creative nonfiction. Informational works. |
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