The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846

Description: The Frontier Complex by Kyle J. Gardner Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial border-making practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and geography into politics. Despite a century of attempts, experts failed to produce a border through the mountainous Himalayas, leading to war between India and China in 1962. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Kyle J. Gardner reveals the transformation of the historical Himalayan entrepôt of Ladakh into a modern, disputed borderland through an examination of rare British, Indian, Ladakhi, and Kashmiri archival sources. In so doing, he provides both a history of the rise of geopolitics and the first comprehensive history of Ladakhs encounter with the British Empire. He examines how colonial border-making practices transformed geography into a political science and established principles that a network of imperial frontier experts would apply throughout the empire and bequeath to an independent India. Through analyzing the complex of imperial policies and practices, The Frontier Complex reveals how the colonial state transformed, and was transformed by, new ways of conceiving of territory. Yet, despite a century of attempts to craft a suitable border, the British failed. The result is an imperial legacy still playing out across the Himalayas. Author Biography Kyle J. Gardner is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University. Table of Contents Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note on the Text; Introduction; 1. Territory before Borderlines: Trade, Cosmology, and Modes of Seeing in Pre-Colonial Ladakh; 2. Surveys: Boundary-Making Principles, Mapping, and the Problem with Watersheds; 3. Communication: Roads, Regulation, and the British Joint Commissioners; 4. Reading the Border: Gazetteers, Tribute Missions, and the Problem with Goats; 5. Trans-Frontier Men: Invasion Anxieties and Frontier Heroes; 6. The Birth of Geopolitics: Frontier Experts, Boundary Commissions, and Trans-frontier Information; 7. Lines of Control: From Empire to Nation-State; Epilogue. Review Kyle J. Gardners pathbreaking The Frontier Complex is sure to become an essential resource on the India-China border. Deftly marshaling a vast range of archival materials across multiple languages, Gardner shows how colonial-era mapmaking practices created cartographic ambiguity that persists to this day. This is an important book on an increasingly urgent geopolitical dispute. Alyssa Ayres, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign RelationsBased on an imaginative and meticulous analysis of sources in Urdu, Ladakhi, Hindi, Tibetan, and English, Gardners insightful and ironical narrative outlines how by converting an open frontier in the Himalayas into a loosely policed imperial border, the British left two of Asias most powerful countries with an unenviable task: converting that border into a sacred boundary separating two nation-states. This is imperial-environmental history at its best. Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of ChicagoThe Frontier Complex is the riveting story of colonial surveyors, administrators, explorers, and strategists centuries-old efforts to pin Ladakh on the map – and their failure. Gardner reveals the ascent of geography as the frontier science by excellence, the Himalayas role in the emergence of modern notions of territory, and how science-based interventions can hold within them the very conditions for their failure. Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, Kings College London… a meticulously researched book which deserves to be read closely. Myra Macdonald, War on the RocksKyle Gardner has given us what is easily the best and most variegated account of the British discovery of Ladakh and their failed attempt to impose imperial scientific or natural frontiers on it. Shivshankar Menon, The WireThis Frontier Complex, and the questions it raises, all stemming from recent history, both colonial and modern, makes Gardners well-researched and in-depth study of the subject, a first of its kind in decades, deserving our serious attention, especially as tensions mount between India and China across this forbidding and desolate landscape. Nirupama Rao, China ReportThe Frontier Complex is an engaging account of the confluence of geographical knowledge, definitions of territory, and ideas of security in the creation and maintenance of imperial borders in the nineteenth century, which have had profound implications for the relationships among states into the twenty-first century. It is thus a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the antecedents of these relationships and what continues to drive them at the contemporary moment. Chitralekha Zutshi , Agricultural HistoryA key strength of The Frontier Complex is its advancement beyond top-down narratives of border-making to continually examine groundlevel interactions with colonial visions of space …The story Gardner constructs is an explicitly global one. Benjamin Holt, Journal of World HistoryGardner gives us a comprehensive account, at once compelling and authoritative, of what he calls the frontier complex along the high Himalayas from its early exploration to the 1962 war between India and China … This impressive volume will engage the interest not only of scholars of South Asia but also of geographers, political scientists, and environmental historians who seek to understand the interplay of geography, geopolitics, and the making of states. Thomas R. Metcalf, Journal of Interdisciplinary History… deserves to be read as a key contribution to the rich and varied burgeoning historiography of a region conventionally - and wrongly - considered peripheral. Thomas Simpson, Journal of Historical GeographyThe deft analysis of these multiple frontier complexes means that Gardners book merits a place on historical geographers shelves … [the book] deserves to be read as a key contribution to the rich and varied burgeoning historiography of a region conventionally - and wrongly - considered peripheral. Thomas, Journal of Historical Geography Promotional Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics. Review Quote Kyle J. Gardners pathbreaking The Frontier Complex is sure to become an essential resource on the India-China border. Deftly marshaling a vast range of archival materials across multiple languages, Gardner shows how colonial-era mapmaking practices created cartographic ambiguity that persists to this day. This is an important book on an increasingly urgent geopolitical dispute. Alyssa Ayres, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations Promotional "Headline" Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics. Description for Bookstore Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial border-making practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and geography into politics. Despite a century of attempts, experts failed to produce a border through the mountainous Himalayas, leading to war between India and China in 1962. Description for Library Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial border-making practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and geography into politics. Despite a century of attempts, experts failed to produce a border through the mountainous Himalayas, leading to war between India and China in 1962. Details ISBN1108840590 Author Kyle J. Gardner Pages 300 Publisher Cambridge University Press ISBN-10 1108840590 ISBN-13 9781108840590 Format Hardcover Year 2021 Short Title The Frontier Complex Language English Publication Date 2021-01-21 DEWEY 327.54051 UK Release Date 2021-01-21 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-01-21 NZ Release Date 2021-01-21 Subtitle Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962 Alternative 9781108814256 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158558903;

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