MARC details
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03550aam a2200217 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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200103b 2018 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781138210806 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
306.095414 |
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C4I2 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Chowdhury, Debdatta |
| 9 (RLIN) |
389559 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Identity and experience at the India-Bangladesh border: the crisis of belonging |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2018 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 240 p. |
| Other physical details |
Includes bibliography and index |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Title |
Routledge studies in Asian diasporas, migrations and mobilities |
| 9 (RLIN) |
389560 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Table of Contents<br/><br/>1. Introduction<br/>2. Livelihood Practices: Legal, illegal and the grey-zone in between<br/>3. Spatial Disparities: Enclaves, Chars and disputed territories<br/>4. Ethno-cultural concerns: Appropriation of marginal spaces<br/>5. Gendered Practices: Perpetrators, victims, accomplices<br/>6. Conclusion |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The effects of the partition of India in 1947 have been more far-reaching and complex than the existing partition narratives of violence and separation reveal. The immediacy of the movement of refugees between India and the newly-formed state of Pakistan overshadowed the actual effect of the drawing of the border between the two states.<br/>The book is an empirical study of border narratives across the India-Bangladesh border, specifically the West Bengal part of India’s border with Bangladesh. It tries to move away from the perpetrator state-victim civilian framework usually used in the studies of marginal people and looks at the kind of agencies that the border people avail themselves of. Instead of looking at the border as the periphery, the book looks at it as the line of convergence and negotiations—the ‘centre of the people’ who survive it every day. It shows that various social, political and economic identities converge at the borderland and is modified in unique ways by the spatial specificity of the border—thus, forming a ‘border identity’ and a ‘border consciousness’. The common sense of the civilians and the state machinery (embodied in the border guards) collide, cooperate and affect each other at the borderlands to form this unique spatial consciousness. It is the everyday survival strategies of the border people which aptly reflects this consciousness rather than any universal border theory or state-centric discourses about the borders. A bottom-up approach is of utmost importance in order to understand how a spatially unique area binds diverse other identities into a larger spatial identity of a ‘border people’.<br/>The book’s relevance lies in its attempt to explore such everyday narratives across the Bengal border while avoiding any major theorising project so as not to choke the potential of such experience-centred insights into the lives of a unique community of people. In that, it contributes towards a study of borders globally, providing potential approaches to understand border people worldwide. Based on detailed field research, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of this border. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of South Asian studies, citizenship, development, governance and border studies.<br/><br/>https://www.routledge.com/Identity-and-Experience-at-the-India-Bangladesh-Border-The-Crisis-of-Belonging/Chowdhury/p/book/9781138210806 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
West Bengal (India) - Social conditions |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Bangladesh - Social conditions |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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India - Boundaries - Bangladesh |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Political science - Public policy - Cultural policy |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Book |
