Between Empires: The making and unmaking of borders, 19th- 20th centuries
Call for Papers
International Conference
Between Empires: The making and unmaking of borders, 19th- 20th centuries
Date: 1 - 2 February, 2018
Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
The idea of frontiers, borders and borderlands have historically constituted important elements of state-making or empire building. This has been an important characteristic of the Asian frontiers and borderlands. Between the 19th and 20th centuries, the production of these spaces was shaped by a variety of processes such as relations of power, knowledge production, violence, imperial policies, search for resources and ideas of space. Such processes proceeded especially along the edges of imperial formations such as British India’s North East frontier, the North West frontier, the Burmese frontier, the Tibetan frontier and the Chinese frontier, etc. These aspects of frontier making were however also shaped by the important role of capital and the ways in which societies and polities in these areas negotiated with these developments in multiple ways. It was in these processes and interactions that one can locate the making of “modern” frontiers and borderlands. In addition, the land frontiers were also straddled by coastal and riverine frontiers such as Arakan, Chittagong, Brahmaputra, Mekong etc. In turn, these frontiers were linked to the wider oceanic and land networks, such as the Indian Ocean and the Silk Road, which connected these geographies to older networks of exchange as well as to the global imperial circulations.
Contact Info:
Lipokmar Dzüvichü, Assistant Professor, North East India Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences- I, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - 110067
Manjeet Baruah, Assistant Professor, North East India Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences - I, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - 110067
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