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040			_aMahanirbar Calcutta Research Group Library _bEnglish
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100	1		_aVijayan, Suchitra _eaut
245	1	0	_aMidnight's borders _ba people's history of modern India _cSuchitra Vijayan
260			_aChennai _bContext, an imprint of Westland Publications _c2021
300			_a261 p. : _bill., map, tables ; _c24 cm
504			_aincl. bibliographical references and index
505	0	0	_aPrologue: (My) Ishmael -- Introduction -- PART I: THE AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER -- 1. SAR HAWZA: Trapped in the Coloniser's Map -- PART II: THE INDIA-BANGLADESH BORDER -- 2. PANITAR: Playing Cricket in No Man's Land -- 3. NEAR JALPAIGURI: "They Stole My Dreams' -- PART III: THE INDIA-CHINA BORDER -- 4. TAWANG: Cartographic Confusion -- PART IV: THE INDIA-MYANMAR BORDER -- 5. NAGALAND: Unimagined by My Nation's Cartography -- 6. NELLIE: Stuck Between Remembering and Forgetting -- 7. GUWAHATI: Tales of Three Detentions -- PART V: THE INDIA-PAKISTAN BORDER -- 8. KASHMIR: Records of Repression -- 9. KASHMIR TODAY: The Revocation of Article 370 -- 10. RAJASTHAN: The Tyranny of Territory -- 11. FAZILKA: Bunkered Territory -- 12. SRI GANGANAGAR: The Tractor Brigade -- 13. AMRITSAR AND NEW YORK: Histories Partitioned – Acknowledgements -- Glossary of Inhuman Words – Notes -- A Note on the Maps -- Index
520			_a"India is a land of borders, its peripheries nestling against seven countries. Over seven years, across 9,000 miles, Suchitra Vijayan travelled these borderlands. The more she travelled, the clearer it became to her that local history and memory bear no resemblance to the political history of the nation that claims these lands and peoples. From the densely populated border that India shares with Bangladesh to the highly disputed one with Pakistan, the stories in this book engage with how people live, struggle, fight and survive. A man escapes the floodlights that invade his home by blocking out all light, children use a border pillar as a handy cricket stump, and a family live out their lives beside the men who orchestrated their son’s death. These are stories that question our ideas of what freedom means and what it means to be a citizen. At a time when millions in India face loss of citizenship—the largest crisis of manufactured statelessness in human history— Vijayan’s clear-eyed, empathetic reportage provides a re-examination of the idea of territorial sovereignty. Midnight’s Borders, featuring over forty original photographs, is a compelling narrative of a country in crisis, turning against its own people while coping with the legacy of colonialism and Partition. As the margins close in on the mainland, this necessary account forces a reckoning with the brutality that informs India’s relationship with its borderlands''--Book jacket
650		4	_aIndia Boundaries
650		4	_aIndia History _y20th century
650		4	_aIndia History _y21st century
650		4	_aIndia Politics and government
650		4	_a Anecdotes
650		4	_aGeopolitics
650		4	_aGeopolitics _y1947 _zIndia
650		4	_aTravel writing
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