• Borderland City in New India: frontier to gateway

    Author(s):
    Duncan McDuie-Ra (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    Anthropology, Place Studies
    Subject(s):
    India, South Asia, Area studies
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Sociology of development, South Asian studies, Urban studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M63D53
    Abstract:
    Borderland Cities in New India explores contemporary urban life in two cities in India’s Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change. Social and economic transformation from India’s embrace of neoliberalism and globalisation, often referred to as ‘new’ India, has become a popular subject for academic analysis in the last decade. This is epitomised by focus on so-called ‘mega-cities’, reflecting a general trend in scholarship on other parts of Asia. However, far less attention has been afforded to borderland regions and to the provincial cities of ‘new’ India. Using ethnographic material, this book focuses on two cities in India’s Northeast borderland: Aizawl and Imphal. Both cities have been profoundly affected by armed conflict, militarism, displacement, and inter-ethnic tensions. Yet, both are also experiencing intensified flows of goods and people, rapid urban development, and expansion of Indian and foreign capital associated with the opening of the borderland west to the rest of India and east to the rest of Asia. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
    Notes:
    Open access version of whole book available free at: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=605035;keyword=borderland%20city Courtesy of Knowledge Unlatched and OAPEN
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    Publisher:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Pub. Date:
    2016
    Book Title:
    Borderland City in New India: frontier to gateway
    Author/Editor:
    Duncan McDuie-Ra
    Chapter:
    1
    ISBN:
    9789089647580
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    7 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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