Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border

by Malini Sur

Book Overview

Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim "frontier peasants," "savage mountaineers," and Christian "ethnic minorities," suspecting them to be disloyal subjects, spies, and traitors. In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of these people to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224787
• ISBN13: 9780812224788
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"