Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
(Part of the The Ethnography of Political Violence Series)
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Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim "frontier peasants," "savage mountaineers," and Christian "ethnic minorities," suspecting them to be disloyal subjects, spies, and traitors. In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of these people to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0812224787
ISBN13:9780812224788
Release Date:August 2021
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.71 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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