"The Bengal Borderland constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the 'Bengal Borderland') as been a core theme in Partition studies, these crucial borderlands have, remarkably been largely ignored by historians." "In examining this crucial region, Willem van Schendel challenges existing assumptions about the nature of relationships between people, place, identity and culture, and raises particularly urgent questions in the context of globalization, with its predictions of the 'end of geography' and a borderless homogenous world." "This book will interest historians, geographers political scientists and economists, as well as South Asianists and migration experts and will appeal to academics students and practitioners."--Jacket.