Midnight's borders : a people's history of modern India (Record no. 344882)
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| fixed length control field | 01515nam a22001817a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | 0 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20210712154023.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9788194879053 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 954 |
| Item number | VIJ |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vijayan, Suchitra |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Midnight's borders : a people's history of modern India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Chennai |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | contxt |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 162418 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | India is a land of borders, its peripheries nestling against seven countries. Over seven years, across 9,000 miles, Suchitra Vijayan travelled these borderlands. The more she travelled, the clearer it became to her that local history and memory bear no resemblance to the political history of the nation that claims these lands and peoples.<br/><br/>From the densely populated border that India shares with Bangladesh to the highly disputed one with Pakistan, the stories in this book engage with how people live, struggle, fight and survive. A man escapes the floodlights that invade his home by blocking out all light, children use a border pillar as a handy cricket stump, and a family live out their lives beside the men who orchestrated their son’s death. These are stories that question our ideas of what freedom means and what it means to be a citizen. At a time when millions in India face loss of citizenship—the largest crisis of manufactured statelessness in human history—Vijayan’s clear-eyed, empathetic reportage provides a re-examination of the idea of territorial sovereignty. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Politics and government |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | History |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Not Missing | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2021-07-12 | 699.00 | 1 | 954 VIJ | 162418 | 2022-03-17 | 2021-12-09 | 2021-07-12 | Books |