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Since 1947 the people of Gilgit-Baltistan have called for integration within the Pakistani state and the extension of fundamental rights to them. This thesis examines how the region's liminality stems from the ambiguities in sovereignty in the colonial and post-colonial period. …

This is a case study in the 1990s of the relationship between shifting knowledge and changing landscape for a small community of people living in the high Karakoram valley of Hunza, a political division of north-east Pakistan. The study was based on the Hunza Slide Catalog-Colle…

This dissertation examines the motivations for and consequences of biomedical health care use in a medically plural region in the Hunza valley of northern Pakistan. Hunza valley has undergone significant social, economic, and political changes in the past twenty-five years, incl…