Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia: Between the Mekong and the Indus. Este artículo no está disponible.Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia: Between the Mekong and the Indus

Focusing on the geographies between the Mekong and the Indus, this book brings objects to the centre of enquiry in the understanding of modern Asian frontiers. It explores how a range of objects has historically been significant bearers and agents of frontier making. For instance, how are objects connected to aspects of state making, social chan

Lipokmar Dzüvichü is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research work covers themes on frontiers and borderlands, transport, and labour history, including the history of commodities and circulation, in the nineteenth and early twentieth century North East Frontier of British India.

Manjeet Baruah is Assistant Professor at Special Centre for the Study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research areas include history of space and text, translation and borderland, and history and culture of colonial resource regimes in North East India. His published works include Frontier Cultures: A Social History of Assamese Literature (2012) and a work of translation, Remains of Spring: A Naga Village in the No Man’s Land (2016).