Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Malini Sur's prose is always clear and often lyrical. Searing insights from many years of indefatigable and intrepid research shine through as
Jungle Passports makes contributions to the study of gender, development, human-animal relations, kinship, ethnic strife, and solidarity. Sur shows the enactment of nation-states as tenuous yet brutal entities in the borderlands of South Asia. Her work offers valuable lessons for understanding such phenomena anywhere in the world." * Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University *
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Jungle Passports is a wonderful book, combining theoretical sophistication with ethnographic richness. While a lot has been written on borders and borderlands lately, Malini Sur offers novel insights. She is also a great storyteller and writer." * Bengt G. Karlsson, Stockholm University *
Table of ContentsContents
Timeline
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Rowmari-Tura Road
Chapter 2. Rice Wars and Nation Building
Chapter 3. Cow Smuggling and Fang Fung
Chapter 4. Kinship, Identities, and "Jungle Passports"
Chapter 5. Fear, Reverence, and the Fence
Chapter 6. Bangladeshi "Suspects" and Indian "Citizens" in Assam
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
