ISBN:
9781009259385
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (290 pages)
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DDC:
305.697095414
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
An innovative analysis of the experience of Bengali Muslims on the Indian side of the India-Bangladesh border.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I.1 The Imposed Inferiority of Bengali Muslims in Colonial India -- I.2 Interventions -- I.2.1 Towards a More Comprehensive Analysis -- I.3 Research Terrain -- I.3.1 Methodology -- Research Process and Ethics -- I.4 Outline of the Book -- 1 Neoliberalism and Identity-Based Hierarchy -- 1.1 Interstate Relations between Bangladesh and India -- 1.1.1 The Broad Implications of Bangladesh's Birth -- 1.1.2 Post-1971 Bilateral Relations -- 1.2 Differential Neoliberalism in Bangladesh and India -- 1.2.1 Neoliberal Bangladesh -- 1.2.2 Neoliberal India -- 1.2.3 Why Differential Neoliberalism Matters -- 1.3 Identity-Based Social Hierarchy in India -- 1.3.1 Politicization of Difference in Colonial India -- 1.3.2 Social Hierarchies in the Contemporary Period -- Religion -- Language and Culture -- Geographical Importance and Ethnic Identity -- Intersecting Identities -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2 Borders as Sites of Strength and Vulnerability -- 2.1 Neoliberal Borderlands -- 2.1.1 Strong Border, Weak Borderlands -- 2.1.2 A Look at BSF's Public Statements -- 2.1.3 ''We Call It Smuggling -- They Call It Trade'' -- 2.1.4 Can You Fence a River? -- 2.2 Life and Identity in the Borderlands Negotiating Neoliberalism -- 2.2.1 Commingling in an Indian Land-Port Village -- 2.2.2 Chhit Lives, India inside Bangladesh -- 2.2.3 Check-Posts, Regulated Bodies -- 2.2.4 By the Riverside -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3 Assam and the ''Illegal'' Other -- 3.1 Violent Manifestations of Marginalization -- 3.2 Colonial Divisions: Forests, Hills, Plains, and Encroachment -- 3.3 Assam: Independence, for Whom? -- 3.3.1 1950s: Post-Partition Bliss -- 3.3.2 1960s: A Grim Turn -- 3.3.3 The Assam Movement of 1979-1985 and Its Repercussions.
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