Borderland City in New India

@inproceedings{McDuieRa2016BorderlandCI,
  title={Borderland City in New India},
  author={Duncan McDuie‐Ra},
  year={2016}
}
decades, the majority of that attention has been focused on its major cities. Borderland City in New India: Frontier to Gateway instead explores contemporary urban life in a smaller city located in India’s Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change, showing how this city has been profoundly affected by armed conflict, militarism, displacement, interethnic tensions, and the expansion of neoliberal capitalism. 
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