Building a Mountain Fortress for India: Sympathy, Imagination and the Reconfiguration of Ladakh into a Border Area
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...Ladakh is a geopolitically sensitive region with contested boundaries and heavy military presence (Baghel and Nüsser 2015; Gagné 2017)....
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...Included within the Kashmir dispute was the majority Tibetan-Buddhist, high altitude region of Ladakh....
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...This has been well established, particularly in anthropological and ethnographic studies of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir (Gagné 2017; Smith 2013), and in historical studies of Tibet (Gros 2020)....
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...The largest of the Himalayan states that Patel was tasked with bringing into the new Indian state was Kashmir....
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...India and Pakistan fought a war before establishing a Line of Control in Kashmir in 1947....
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...During the same period the Qing Dynasty was sinicising eastern Tibet (Giersch 2006; Tsomu 2013), the British were turning Sikkim and Kashmir into dependent princely states (Naik 2014) and forcing uneven trading treaties on Nepal and Bhutan....
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