Introduction Tanuja Kothiyal and Farhana Ibrahim; 1. Paradise at the Frontier: Kashmir as a Political Terrain and Literary Landscape in the Mughal Empire Anubhuti Maurya; 2. Borders in the Age of Empire and Nation-States: The Honeycomb of Borderlands – Kumaun, Western Tibet and Far Western Nepal Vasudha Pande; 3. Borders, Difference, Recognition: On the Cause(s) of Gorkhaland Townsend Middleton; 4. Embattled Frontiers and Emerging Spaces: Transformation of the Tawang Border Swargajyoti Gohain; 5. Relative Intimacies: Belonging and Difference in Transnational Families across the Bengal Borderland Sahana Ghosh; 6. Reading Parijat in Nepal: The Poetics of Radical Feminism Negotiating Self and Nation Mallika Shakya; 7. Commodity Journeys and Market Circuits: Making Borders 'Natural' in Colonial Western Himalayas Aniket Alam; 8. Frontiers, State and Banditry in the Thar Desert in the Nineteenth Century Tanuja Kothiyal; 9. Bureaucracy and Border Control: Ethnographic Perspectives on Crime, Police Reform, and 'national security' in Kutch, 1948–1952 Farhana Ibrahim; 10. Frontier as Resource: Law, Crime, and Sovereignty on the Margins of Empire Eric L. Beverley; Index.