India’s East and North East

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This book critically examines the complex processes of border-making in South Asia, with a focus on India’s Eastern and Northeastern borderlands. Rooted in the historical legacies of colonialism and their post-colonial implications, it explores how borders in this region embody rupture and hybridity, challenging simplistic notions of territoriality. Through diverse perspectives, the book delves into the nuanced interplay between state-making, political mobilization, and the lived experiences of borderland communities. The chapters investigate a range of borders—open, closed, land, and river—alongside the communities who navigate these spaces. By analyzing the social, legal, and political dimensions of these borderlands, the volume highlights the transcendence between legible and illegible, and legal and illegal, categories. It sheds light on the “cartographic anxieties” of states and the “demographic anxieties” of communities, emphasizing the tensions between imposed boundaries and lived realities. This interdisciplinary volume moves beyond viewing borderlands as mere physical divides, instead framing them as dynamic spaces shaped by histories, identities, and cross-border interactions. With contributions from scholars of varying expertise and positionalities, it offers a multifaceted understanding of border-making and its implications, challenging monolithic narratives and fostering a deeper appreciation of South Asia’s intricate borderland dynamics.

Dr. Gorky Chakraborty is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), Kolkata. He has been associated with research and teaching for the last 30 years and specialises on development related issues in Northeast India.

Dr. Pum Khan Pau is an Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, Nagaland University, Kohima, India. He has also been teaching for over two decades and has published books and articles on the India-Myanmar Borderlands.

This book critically examines the complex processes of border-making in South Asia, with a focus on India’s Eastern and Northeastern borderlands. Rooted in the historical legacies of colonialism and their post-colonial implications, it explores how borders in this region embody rupture and hybridity, challenging simplistic notions of territoriality. Through diverse perspectives, the book delves into the nuanced interplay between state-making, political mobilization, and the lived experiences of borderland communities. The chapters investigate a range of borders—open, closed, land, and river—alongside the communities who navigate these spaces. By analyzing the social, legal, and political dimensions of these borderlands, the volume highlights the transcendence between legible and illegible, and legal and illegal, categories. It sheds light on the “cartographic anxieties” of states and the “demographic anxieties” of communities, emphasizing the tensions between imposed boundaries and lived realities.This interdisciplinary volume moves beyond viewing borderlands as mere physical divides, instead framing them as dynamic spaces shaped by histories, identities, and cross-border interactions. With contributions from scholars of varying expertise and positionalities, it offers a multifaceted understanding of border-making and its implications, challenging monolithic narratives and fostering a deeper appreciation of South Asia’s intricate borderland dynamics.

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Indian Borderland Perspectives Post-colonial state-making in South Asia Citizenship Anxieties in Contemporary India Literary Perspectives on India’s Borderlands Autonomy aspirations in Borderlands Ethnic Belongingness in North East India Informality and Materiality across Border spaces Border-making Borderlands Ethnicity Autonomy Citizenship Socio-political Space trans-locational positionality

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