{"product_id":"jungle-passports-9780812252798","title":"Jungle Passports","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 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 \u003ci\u003eJungle Passports\u003c\/i\u003e Malini Sur follows the struggles of these people to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the cattle and garments upon which their livelihoods depend against a background of violence, scarcity, and India''s construction of one of the world''s longest and most highly militarized border fences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJungle Passports\u003c\/i\u003e recasts established notions of citizenship and mobility along violent borders. Sur shows how the division of sovereignties and distinct regimes of mobility and citizenship push undocumented people to undertake perilous journeys across previously unrecognized borders every day. Paying close attention to the forces that shape \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Malini Sur's prose is always clear and often lyrical. Searing insights from many years of indefatigable and intrepid research shine through as \u003ci\u003eJungle Passports\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eJungle Passports\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Timeline\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Rowmari-Tura Road\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Rice Wars and Nation Building\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Cow Smuggling and \u003ci\u003eFang Fung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Kinship, Identities, and \"Jungle Passports\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Fear, Reverence, and the Fence\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Bangladeshi \"Suspects\" and Indian \"Citizens\" in Assam\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405745267031,"sku":"9780812252798","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812252798.jpg?v=1730493464","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jungle-passports-9780812252798","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}