South Asia by Dhananjay Tripathi, Sanjay Chaturvedi - 9781032113562

Taylor & Francis

Post-colonial and post-partition South Asia, one of the fastest-growing and yet one of the least integrated regions of the world, is marked by both optimism and pessimism. This intriguing dichotomy of strength and weakness, security and insecurity, hope and fear, connections and disconnects underpins South Asia\u2019s regionalism conundrum and gives birth to borders and boundaries \u2013 both material and mental \u2013 with a complex territoriality. The Janus-faced nature of South Asian borderlands \u2013 the inward nationalizing impulses entangled with the outward regional frontier-orientations \u2013 is a stark reminder that history of mobility in this eco-geographical region is much older than the history of territoriality and colonial cartography and ethnography. This collection of meticulously researched, theoretically informed, case studies from South Asia provides useful insights into bordering, ordering and othering narratives as practices and performances that are intricatel.