Conceptualizing India and Myanmar borderlands

Saikia, Pahi; Chaudhury, Anasua Basu Ray

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“…Today scholars study the Indo-Myanmar borderland by focusing on the historical, cultural, social, and economic ties that bind communities in Northeast India together with those who live beyond the Indo-Myanmar boundary line (Baruah, 2004; Jacob, 2010). Following the cross-border ethnic and cultural affinities argument, studies on trans-border communities have also been on the rise (Ketoukhrie-ü, 2015; Kipgen & Chowdhury, 2019; McConnachie, 2018; Pau, 2018; Pau & Mung, 2021; Saikia & Chaudhury, 2019; Sharma, 2011). Others have focused on the economic and trade perspectives of India and Myanmar (Das et al, 2005), the implications of the Act East Policy on the region (Das & Thomas, 2016) and the borderland communities (Majumdar, 2020), infrastructure in the border region (Ziipao, 2020) and the location of this borderland at the crossroads of old commercial trade routes between India, Burma, and China (Cederlöft, 2013).…”

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Imposed Geography and Contested Spaces Among Borderland Communities in the Indo-Myanmar Borderland: The Case of Konyak Nagas and Khiamniungan Nagas

Ketoukhrie-ü

2023

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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Imposed geography in the form of cartographic mapping and boundary lines is part of the state-making and production of ‘legible’ subjects throughout the world. As a result of such impositions, there have been constant claims and contestations of space, nation and citizenship among the borderland communities. Such claims and contestations have sustained and reinforced connections and mobility of the borderland communities across the border. Such cross-border connections and mobility are found very commonly even among the borderland communities of Northeast India. With huge borderlands, Northeast India has diverse borderland communities that maintain close ethnic ties across artificial and imposed boundaries. Based on fieldwork conducted both in India and Myanmar, the present article centres on the Konyak Nagas and Khiamniungan Nagas living on both sides of the Indo-Myanmar boundary and looks at how these borderland communities constantly negotiate with the imposed border and sustain their relationship across the border. The article delves into the question of how such imposed geography has resulted in the contestation of space, nation and citizenship among the borderland communities which points toward new layers of complicacy defying the very rationale of a hard border.

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Section: Centring On the Indo-myanmar Borderland And Its Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imposed Geography and Contested Spaces Among Borderland Communities in the Indo-Myanmar Borderland: The Case of Konyak Nagas and Khiamniungan Nagas

Ketoukhrie-ü

2023

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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Conceptualizing India and Myanmar borderlands

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Imposed Geography and Contested Spaces Among Borderland Communities in the Indo-Myanmar Borderland: The Case of Konyak Nagas and Khiamniungan Nagas

Imposed Geography and Contested Spaces Among Borderland Communities in the Indo-Myanmar Borderland: The Case of Konyak Nagas and Khiamniungan Nagas

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