Studies how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was shaped and offers an alternative history, problematising current conceptions of the international boundary between India and Pakistan. Contraband, consumption, clan, caste, class, and state-building weave …
"In 1947, the Punjab border was created that defined the boundary of the newly independent states of India and Pakistan. This book seeks to provide the first rounded social history of this international border, which was a result of the end of the British colonial rule. It divid…
"In 1947, the Punjab border was created that defined the boundary of the newly independent states of India and Pakistan. This book seeks to provide the first rounded social history of this international border, which was a result of the end of the British colonial rule. It divid…
The Punjab Borderland offers a fascinating insight into how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was made, subverted, and transformed. Dispelling the established historiographical narratives of an increasingly militarised border that presents as the epitome …
