Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Rowmari-Tura Road -- Chapter 2. Rice Wars and Nation Building -- Chapter 3. Cow Smuggling and Fang-Fung -- Chapter 4. Kinship, Identities, and "Jungle Passports" -- Chapter 5. Fear, Reverence, and the Fence -- Chapter 6. Bangladeshi "Suspects" and Indian "Citizens" in Assam -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh and their efforts to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the cattle and garments upon which their livelihoods depend
