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100	0		_aIlyas Chattha _911111
245	1	4	_aThe Punjab borderland : _bmobility, materiality and militancy, 1947-1987 / _cIlyas Chattha
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013
300			_axvii, 313 p.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe 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
546			_aEng
650			_aPunjab (India and Pakistan)-history _911112
650			_aBorderlands-Punjab _911113
942			_cBK
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