Schendel, Willem van.

The Bengal borderland : beyond state and nation in South Asia / Willem van Schendel. - London : Anthem, 2005 - viii, 429 p. : ill., maps 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-418) and index.

"The Bengal Borderland constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the 'Bengal Borderland') as been a core theme in Partition studies, the

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