Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India

by Ravina Aggarwal

The Kashmir conflict, the ongoing border dispute between India and Pakistan, has sparked four wars and cost thousands of lives. In this innovative ethnography, Ravina Aggarwal moves beyond conventional understandings of the conflict--which tend to emphasize geopolitical security concerns and religious essentialisms--to consider how it is experienced by those living in the border zones along the Line of Control, the 435-mile boundary separating India...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822334143
• ISBN13: 9780822334149
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"