TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sur,Malini
TI  - Jungle passports: fences, mobility, and citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh border 
T2  - The ethnography of political violence
SN  - 9780812224788(pbk.)
U1  - 954.1 SUR 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Borderlands
KW  - India, Northeastern
KW  - Bangladesh
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - India
KW  - Border security
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - Anthropological aspects
KW  - Transnationalism
N1  - Amazon
IN-240
Rs.2498/-; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book is about an in-between period when India started replacing old boundary structures with a new multilayered fence along its borders with Bangladesh, approximately 2007 until 2015. It specifically explores the diverse mobilities of people, goods, and animals amid political, historical, and ecological forces at play in the Northeast India-Bangladesh borderland. I retrace my steps in time to resituate and contextualize the fence in histories of road-building and rice wars that goes back almost two hundred years. In an era of global nationalistic rhetoric, this book seeks to foreground how the ubiquity of border infrastructures that seek to resolve issues of national citizenship and migrant "illegality" establishes their indeterminacy of purpose. The shifting and twisting ecology of the terrain, along with the complex exchanges, continues to defy contemporary visions of homogeneous nation-states"--
ER  -