The Punjab borderland : mobility, materiality and militancy, 1947-1987 /
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Reviews
- The Punjab Borderland
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Partition, Borders and Borderlands
- Characteristics and Consequences of Smuggling
- Sources and Methodology
- Overview of the Chapters
- Notes
- 1 Making of the Border
- Clarifying the Boundary Line
- The Pant-Mirza Agreement of 1955
- Border Bureaucratic Imperative
- 'Fluctuating Boundary'
- Burji Border
- Policing the Border
- Rhetoric of Espionage and Surveillance Installations
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 2 Cross-Border Flows
- Crossing Points
- People
- Non-Borderlanders
- Meos
- Biharis
- Border Dwellers
- Criminalising the Cattle Communities
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3 Illicit Cities
- Border Goods
- 'Twin Cities'
- Clothing
- Paan
- Major Operators in Lahore
- Contraband and Consumer Patriotism
- Post-Independence Developments: The Catalytic Role of Contraband Economy
- Paan Gali: A Contraband Hub
- People Smuggling
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4 Illicit Global Gold Trade and Wagah-Attari Crossing
- Partition's Hidden Treasure
- Hajj and Gold Smuggling
- Global Gold Traffic and the Punjab Border
- Gold Operators in Lahore and Cross-Border Contacts
- Global Gold Racket and Wagah-Attari Crossing
- Global Gold Smuggling Routes to Pakistan
- Gold Smuggling and Karachi's Islands
- Kassim Bhatti: A Fisherman to 'King of Gold Smugglers'
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5 The Making of Contraband Culture
- Borderland Culture
- Border Ballad and Contraband Solidarity
- Bhai-Bandi: Oral Accounts and Archival Sources
- Border Work: New Forms of Labour
- Blackia
- Birth of a New Borderland Elite
- Ghurki Smuggling System
- 'Gold Kings'
- Seth Abid: 'Pakistani Gold King'
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6 The Regulation of Cross-Border Flows and State Patronage
- 'The Border Smuggling Force'
- Mukhbir System
- Anti-Smuggling Measures
- Anti-Smuggling: Weaponry against Rivals
- 'Gold Kings' and State Patronage
- Transnational Flying Gold
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7 Guns, Drugs and the End of the 'Good Old Days'
- An Institutionalised Smuggling System
- Guns
- Guns to Drugs
- Securitisation of the Border
- Fencing the Border
- The End of the 'Good Gold Days'
- Oral Histories
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Appendix
- Punjabi Border Ballads/Folklore Translations
- Bibliography
- Index