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Fractured Settlements : Re-enclaving the Borderland Chhitmohol - Surya Sankar Sen
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Fractured Settlements

Re-enclaving the Borderland Chhitmohol

By: Surya Sankar Sen

Hardcover | 30 September 2026 | Edition Number 1

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This book examines the exchange of enclaves, or chhitmohols, between India and Bangladesh, challenging the assumption that it was merely a territorial issue. Focusing on the lived experiences of communities inhabiting these enclaves and their surrounding locales, the study engages with how sovereignty, citizenship, and belonging were negotiated amidst conditions of their âstatelessâ, peripheral existences. Through an exploration of how these spaces generated strategic repositionings to state power, the book uncovers the intricate and multifaceted dynamics of adaptation to argue that even in statelessness, they remained locally embedded.

Grounded in an ethnography of communities from these former enclaves and its surrounding locales, the book offers a situated reading of how they generated contingent forms of adaptation to navigate the reordering of everyday life, brought about through state intercession in these spaces. The book, therefore shifts attention to âthe localâ as both a site and lens to understand the complexities of how state power is mediated, resisted, and also, reworked. Through this, it offers a broader reflection on the uneven and ongoing nature of the incorporation of spaces and people into the state at the borderlands.

This volume is an essential resource for students and researchers in Politics and International Relations, Conflict Studies, Borderland Studies, Sociology, and History, offering valuable insights into the complexities of borderland communities and their interactions with state systems.

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