Borderland City in New India
Author: McDuie-Ra, Duncan
Added by: carl
Added Date: 2020-03-06
Language: eng
Subjects: Sociology, Languages and Literatures, urban studies, anthropology, Open Access Books
Publishers: Amsterdam University Press
Collections: IndiaCulture, JaiGyan
ISBN Number: 9789048525362 9789089647580
Pages Count: 300
PPI Count: 300
PDF Count: 1
Total Size: 87.24 MB
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Description
Book Series: Asian Borderlands
Open access for this publication was provided by the following grant: Knowledge Unlatched - 103433
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.