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ca-5557	Ghosh, Sahana	Borderlands as Barracks: Constructing a National Geography of Security in India	2025		.htm	application/xhtml+xml	10766	477	49	I explore the social and spatial transformations entailed in making borderlands into barracks, sites where increasing numbers of BSF soldiers come to live and work through ever-expanding infrastructures: outposts with barracks, family quarters, roads to support vehicular movement, watchtowers, checkpoints, and the walls to protect them. In the east, the BOPs proved integral to making the “patchwork border,” demarcating and occupying national territory (van Schendel 2005) long before India started constructing a fence that has now become the iconic image of border security in this region.	cache/ca-5557.htm	txt/ca-5557.txt