Cross-border activities in everyday life: The Bengal borderland

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-60

  Ghosh, Sahana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Border control; Border landscape; Cross border interactions; Identity

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CRIME; CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS; NATION STATE; POST-COLONIALISM; SMUGGLING; SOCIAL HISTORY; TRAFFICKING;

BENGAL;

EID: 79953715642     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: 1469364X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2010.544718     Document Type: Article

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