Farhana Ibrahim is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from Cornell University. Her current research project engages with maritime histories and merchant networks in western India, and she has published articles in journals such as Nomadic Peoples, Economic and Political Weekly and Himal South Asian.

• 1. Imagining a Region  2. Migration, Memory, and Affect: Counter-Perspectives to Asmita  3. Defining a Border: Religion, Region, and Nation  4. Pastoralists, Islam, and the State: Religion and Settlement of the Border  5. Settlement, Sovereignty, and History  6. Epilogue.  Bibliography.  Index