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Acknowledgements --
Foreword --
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Section I Theorising borders: the South Asian perspective --
1 Introduction --
2 The Chinese concept of sovereignty and the India-China border dispute --
3 The dialectics of mental borders in South Asia: a literary perspective --
4 Theorising borders: an Islamic alternative --
Section II Borders: regional economy and connectivity --
5 India's quest for connectivity with Central and Southeast Asia 6 Sri Lankan maritime dynamics: feasibility of Indo-Sri Lanka mutually beneficial collaboration at the Palk Strait --
7 South Asian trans-border energy connectivity and cooperation: problems and prospects --
8 The economic border: a lens to understand cross-border trade and investment (non)cooperation in South Asia --
Section III Borderlands --
9 Paradox of development: emerging changes and contestations among Tawang Monpas in Arunachal Pradesh --
10 Borderland people and the rise of the state: a case study of Thar Desert 11 Many lives of a border: mentalities, subjectivities of the nation-state at the India-Bangladesh Border Haats --
Section IV Securitisation and borders --
12 Conflicts, cooperation, and territoriality: understanding borders and security at the regional level --
13 Heterogeneous security complex: a framework for the analysis of the China-India water conflict and South Asia --
14 Globalisation, Internet, and nation-states: theoretical exploration of the new borders of globalisation --
Index