Photographs. Foreword -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- chapter 1. Genetic footprint of trans-border communities in the Indian sub-continent : an overview / Biswanath Sarkar -- Tribe, village and agriculture : Zomia vis-a-vis post-colonialist hybrid narrative / N.K. Das -- chapter 3. Contact cultural areas in ethnology : methods and reasons to study / Svetlana Ryzhakova -- chapter 4. Border communities of Indo-Nepal frontier -- aspects of their cultures and identities / Seikh Rahim Mondal -- chapter 5. Partition of Bengal and settlement pattern of refugees according to their caste identities / Antu Saha -- chapter 6. The partition impact : looking through the prism of a village community in present Bangladesh / Sanjay K. Roy -- chapter 7. Plight of failed Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers in the United Kingdom : a study on failed asylum seekers in East London / Madhulika Sahoo -- chapter 8. Reflections on contemporary transcultural work with local communities / Pornrat Damrhung -- chapter 9. The dilemma of 'traditional' food : the case of the Garos of Assam and Bangladesh / Queenbala Marak -- chapter 10. Posters of Lhasa -- identity, exile and resistance / Abeer Gupta -- chapter 11. Reconstructing the space, identity and domains of performance / Ratna Dhar -- chapter 12. The bamboo tree in the spirit of the Vietnamese people / Le Thi Hoai Phuong -- chapter 13. McMahon line : the imaginary Sino-Indian international border / Bibhash Dhar -- chapter 14. The uprooted people and their cultural transplantation : a study of Tibetan refugees / A.V. Arakeri -- chapter 15. Tibetan Buddhist tradition and India / Nita Sengupta -- chapter 16. The Pangkhoa emigration to India : a study on the Pangkhoa indigenous people living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh / Muhammad Ala Uddin -- chapter 17. Lachenpa : a trans-border community / Krishna Basu -- chapter 18. Genetic footprint of trans-border communities in the Indian sub-continent : an overview / Biswanath Sarkar -- Photographs.
Summary:
Contributed papers presented at Seminar on "Trans-Border Communities and Cultures, organized by Anthropological Survey of India in February 2013.
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