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Sovereign atonement : citizenship, territory, and the state at the Bangladesh-India border /

"Drawing on the experiences in the former border enclaves of India inside Bangladesh, Sovereign Atonement provides a rich ethnographic reading of the role of the state and the sovereign in excluding and including the same population and spaces within its mandate. It focuses on the aspects of (n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferdoush, Md. Azmeary (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Series:South Asia in the social sciences.
Subjects:
Citizenship > Bangladesh.
Citizenship > India.
Stateless persons > Bangladesh.
Stateless persons > India.
Exclaves > Bangladesh.
Exclaves > India.
Borderlands > Bangladesh.
Borderlands > India.
Bangladesh > Foreign relations > India.
India > Foreign relations > Bangladesh.
Apatrides > Bangladesh.
Apatrides > Inde.
Enclaves (Droit international) > Bangladesh.
Enclaves (Droit international) > Inde.
Régions frontalières > Bangladesh.
Régions frontalières > Inde.
Inde > Relations extérieures > Bangladesh.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : remnants, nations, and the sovereign
  • Sovereign atonement
  • From "sensitive" to "symbolic" spaces
  • Land and citizenship as technologies of territory
  • Everyday governance : ambiguity, accountability, and abundance
  • Infrastructure, belonging, and the state
  • Refusal and tolerance
  • Epilogue.