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Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India
Ravina Aggarwal
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Description for Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India
Paperback. A historical and ethnographic account of a region located on the border of India and Pakistan; the people who live there engage with the specter of war and religious conflict, racial identity, and the processes of modernity through varying performative mo Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
The Kashmir conflict, the ongoing border dispute between India and Pakistan, has sparked four wars and cost thousands of lives. In this innovative ethnography, Ravina Aggarwal moves beyond conventional understandings of the conflict—which tend to emphasize geopolitical security concerns and religious essentialisms—to consider how it is experienced by those living in the border zones along the Line of Control, the 435-mile boundary separating India from Pakistan. She focuses on Ladakh, the largest region in northern India’s State of Jammu and Kashmir. Located high in the Himalayan and Korakoram ranges, Ladakh borders Pakistan to the west and Tibet to the east. ... Read more
The Kashmir conflict, the ongoing border dispute between India and Pakistan, has sparked four wars and cost thousands of lives. In this innovative ethnography, Ravina Aggarwal moves beyond conventional understandings of the conflict—which tend to emphasize geopolitical security concerns and religious essentialisms—to consider how it is experienced by those living in the border zones along the Line of Control, the 435-mile boundary separating India from Pakistan. She focuses on Ladakh, the largest region in northern India’s State of Jammu and Kashmir. Located high in the Himalayan and Korakoram ranges, Ladakh borders Pakistan to the west and Tibet to the east. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822334149
SKU
V9780822334149
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About Ravina Aggarwal
Ravina Aggarwal is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Smith College. She is the editor of Into the High Ranges: The Penguin Anthology of Mountain Writings and the editor and translator of Forsaking Paradise: Stories from Ladakh, by Abdul Ghani Sheikh. She was a founding editor of the journal Meridians.
Reviews for Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India
“Beyond Lines of Control is a theoretically sophisticated, gracefully written ethnography about the politics of performance—and the performance of politics—in one of the most contested geopolitical landscapes in the world.”—Piya Chatterjee, author of A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation “Beyond Lines of Control is an informative book about a region that is understudied ... Read more