01696nam a22002177a 4500 20260420165512.0 260420s2013 |||||||| |||| 001 0 eng d 9786277706067 PK-LaUMT 954.914 ILY-P Ilyas Chattha 11111 The Punjab borderland : mobility, materiality and militancy, 1947-1987 / Ilyas Chattha New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 xvii, 313 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. The Punjab Borderland offers a fascinating insight into how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was made, subverted, and transformed. Dispelling the established historiographical narratives of an increasingly militarised border that presents as the epitome of animosity and a classic example of inter-state tension, this book offers a corrective to these accounts by bringing out narratives of border crossings and social relations built on mutual benefit and trust. It conceptualises the making of the vast contraband as an analytical tool, not merely as borderland societies' modes for evading the state imposition of a partitioned geography on their local lifeworld, but as a catalyst for enabling social mobility and political empowerment for the population involved and a thriving market for consumption in the urban centres. It reveals a 'bottom-up' history of the Punjab border and the invention of the borderland society, narrating a story with local meanings and transnational dimensions Eng Punjab (India and Pakistan)-history 11112 Borderlands-Punjab 11113 BK 140548 140548 0 0 0 0 01 01 2026-03-12 0 954.914 ILY-P 152399 2026-04-20 16:52:14 2026-04-20 BK