Histories of belonging(s): Narrating territory, possession, and dispossession at the India-Bangladesh border

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 527-558

  Cons, Jason ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ETHNOPOLITICS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL HISTORY; POST-COLONIALISM; SOVEREIGNTY; STATE ROLE; TERRITORIALITY;

BANGLADESH; INDIA;

EID: 84859538251     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: 14698099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X11000722     Document Type: Review

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