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Governing Landscapes: Territorialisation and Exchange at South Asia's Himalayan Frontier. Guest Editor: Rune Bennike

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Governing Landscapes: Territorialisation and Exchange at South Asia's Himalayan Frontier
Rune Bennike
Pages: 217-221
Published online: 19 Jun 2017
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Building a Mountain Fortress for India: Sympathy, Imagination and the Reconfiguration of Ladakh into a Border Area
Karine Gagné
Pages: 222-238
Published online: 10 Apr 2017
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Bordering Spaces, Practising Borders: Fences, Roads and Reorientations across a Nepal–China Borderland
Galen Murton
Pages: 239-255
Published online: 09 Apr 2017
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Frontier Commodification: Governing Land, Labour and Leisure in Darjeeling, India
Rune Bennike
Pages: 256-271
Published online: 27 Mar 2017
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Keywords. Guest Editors: Meera Ashar, Trent Brown, Assa Doron, Craig Jeffrey

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Introduction
Craig Jeffrey
Pages: 272-273
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Adjust
Jane Dyson
Pages: 274-275
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Anti-Social Element
Ornit Shani
Pages: 276-278
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Arbit
Debjani Bhattacharyya
Pages: 279-280
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Bombay Time/Standard Time
Jim Masselos
Pages: 281-284
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Boy/Girl
Manisha Desai
Pages: 285-286
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Culture
Kirin Narayan
Pages: 287-290
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Current
Jamie Cross
Pages: 291-293
Published online: 21 Dec 2016
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Cutting Chai
Sunila S. Kale
Pages: 294-296
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Depression
Bhrigupati Singh
Pages: 297-300
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Duplicate
Lawrence Cohen
Pages: 301-304
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Eve-Teasing
Deepti Misri
Pages: 305-307
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Funda
Ira Raja
Pages: 308-310
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Gas
Stefan Ecks
Pages: 311-312
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Girmit
Brij V. Lal
Pages: 313-315
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Godown
Mishka Sinha
Pages: 316-319
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Good Name
Peter Friedlander
Pages: 320-322
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Governance
R. F. I. Smith
Pages: 323-326
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Hero
Satendra Kumar
Pages: 327-329
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India
Shvetal Vyas Pare
Pages: 330-332
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Injection
Projit Bihari Mukharji
Pages: 333-335
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Ishtyle
Annie McCarthy
Pages: 336-337
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Item Number/Item Girl
Akshaya Kumar
Pages: 338-341
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Line
William Elison
Pages: 342-344
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Love Marriage
Shameem Black
Pages: 345-348
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Lumpen
Nandini Chandra
Pages: 349-353
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Matrimonial
Sarbeswar Sahoo
Pages: 354-357
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Mobile
Assa Doron
Pages: 358-360
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Mood
Amita Baviskar
Pages: 361-362
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Mug
Amanda Gilbertson
Pages: 363-365
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Non-Veg
Christian Lee Novetzke
Pages: 366-369
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One-by-Two
Lakshmi Srinivas
Pages: 370-372
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Only (in) India
Michiel Baas
Pages: 373-375
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Organic
Trent Brown
Pages: 376-378
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Peon
Ronojoy Sen
Pages: 379-381
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Politics, Politicking
Ursula Rao
Pages: 382-384
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Public
Meera Ashar
Pages: 385-388
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Real Estate
Hugo Gorringe & D. Karthikeyan
Pages: 389-391
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Rowdy
Shreyas Sreenath
Pages: 392-394
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Same
Isabelle Clark-Deces
Pages: 395-396
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Source Force
David N. Gellner & Amanda Snellinger
Pages: 397-399
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Technic
Priti Ramamurthy
Pages: 400-403
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Tension
Nandini Gooptu & Sneha Krishnan
Pages: 404-406
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Timepass
Craig Jeffrey
Pages: 407-409
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Vote
Mukulika Banerjee
Pages: 410-412
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Wheatish
Robin Jeffrey
Pages: 413-414
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