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Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization by van Schendel, Willem, Abraham, Itty

“…Illicit Flows and Criminal Things offers a new perspective on illegal transnational linkages, international relations, and the transnational. The contributors…”
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Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance: Jumping Scale in Southeast Asia by van Schendel, Willem

“…‘Area studies' use a geographical metaphor to visualise and naturalise particular social spaces as well as a particular scale of analysis. They produce…”
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Rebuffing Bengali dominance: postcolonial India and Bangladesh by van Schendel, Willem

“…A vast literature analyzes how Bengali identities developed in colonial India. This article steps away from both celebratory approaches and a focus on the…”
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Stateless in South Asia: The Making of the India-Bangladesh Enclaves by van Schendel, Willem

“…“Only in the eyes of the law are we indians.” With these words Anu Chairman sketched the position of tens of thousands of people living beyond the reach of…”
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Toward a Comparative History of Borderlands by Baud, Michiel, Van Schendel, Willem

“…The historical study of borderlands has been unduly restricted by an emphasis on the legal, political, and geographical aspects of borders and by a…”
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Rethinking the Bangladesh state by Lewis, David, van Schendel, Willem

“…The study of the Bangladesh state continues to be a path less travelled for scholars of South Asia. The articles in this special issue aim to offer fresh…”
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Southeast Asia: An idea whose time is past? by Schendel, Willem van

“…In this issue we focus on claims made by Willem van Schendel in an article 'Southeast Asia: An idea whose time is past?'. Specialists in the field, invited to…”
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‘I Am Not a Refugee’: Rethinking Partition Migration by Rahman, Md. Mahbubar, Van Schendel, Willem

“…In the wake of Partition—the break-up of British India in 1947—millions of people moved across the new borders between Pakistan and India. Although much has…”
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A Politics of Nudity: Photographs of the ‘Naked Mru’ of Bangladesh by Van Schendel, Willem

“…This article uses photographs to explore the meanings of nudity in a district of Bangladesh. Throughout the colonial and postcolonial periods, photography was…”
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Working Through Partition: Making a Living in the Bengal Borderlands by van Schendel, Willem

“…Partition, the break-up of colonial India in 1947, has been the subject of considerable serious historical research, but almost exclusively from two…”
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A War Within a War: Mizo rebels and the Bangladesh liberation struggle by VAN SCHENDEL, WILLEM

“…In 1971 a war led to the creation of Bangladesh. Instantly three narratives sprang up: the war as a national triumph, the war as betrayal and shame, and the…”
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Asian Borderlands: Introducing their Permeability, Strategic Uses and Meanings by van Schendel, Willem, de Maaker, Erik

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What Is Agrarian Labour? Contrasting Indigo Production in Colonial India and Indonesia by van Schendel, Willem

“…In scholarly writings, the term “agrarian labour” is used variously. It can refer to a very specific set of productive activities – the cultivation of crops…”
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The Invention of the ‘Jummas’: State Formation and Ethnicity in Southeastern Bangladesh by van Schendel, Willem

“…This paper deals with socio-cultural innovation in the hills of southeastern Bangladesh. Outsiders have always been struck by the ethnic diversity of this…”
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Borderland Histories, Northeastern India: An Introduction by Pachuau, Joy L.K., van Schendel, Willem

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Stretching Labour Historiography: Pointers from South Asia by van Schendel, Willem

“…Studies of working people have long been framed by the concepts of “free” and “unfree” labour, a pair that distinguishes workers who are fully proletarianized…”
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Orta Asya ve İslam dünyasında kimlik politikaları: 20. yüzyılda milliyetçilik, etnisite ve emek / derleyenler, Willem Van Schendel, Erik J. Zürcher ; çeviren, Selda Somuncuoğlu by Schendel, Willem van, Zürcher, Erik Jan, Somuncuoğlu, Selda

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Stretching labour historiography: ideas from South Asia by Schendel, Willem van

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A History of Bangladesh by McDermott, Rachel Fell

“…[...]there are many aids to help the reader: a timeline, 12 maps, 2 figures, 104 plates, a list of 21 key political figures, a glossary, and 31 human-interest…”
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Three Deltas: Accumulation and Poverty in Rural Burma, Bengal, and South India by Paul, Bimal Kanti

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