The Challenge of Nation-Building in a Geopolitically Contested Region.
The Baltis mostly inhabit a region at the western edge of the Himalayas, also known as Baltistan. Today, Baltistan is considered to be a geographic and geopolitical border region; it is administered predominantly by Pakistan and claimed as a whole by India. Moreover, the Balti language is associated...
| Published in: | Asian Ethnology Vol. 80; no. 2; pp. 287 - 318 |
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Nanzan University
2021
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