From Family to Police Force: Security and Belonging on a South Asian Border-Quality Guarantee

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Title: From Family to Police Force: Security and Belonging on a South Asian Border

Author: Farhana Ibrahim

ISBN: 9781501759543

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 210

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From Family to Police Force
illuminates the production and contestation of social, familial, and national order on a South Asian borderland. In the borderland that divides Kutch, a district in the western Indian state of Gujarat, from Sindh, a southern province in Pakistan, there are many forces at work: civil and border police, the air wing of the armed forces, paramilitary forces, and various intelligence agencies that depute officers to the region. These groups are the major actors in the field of security and policing. Farhana Ibrahim offers a bird’s-eye view of these groups, drawing on long-standing anthropological engagement with the region. She observes policing on multiple levels, showing in detail that the nation-state is only one of the scales at which policing is enacted at a borderland.

Ibrahim draws on multiple sources and forms of policing structure to illuminate everyday interaction on the personal scale, bringing families and individuals into the broader picture. From Family to Police Force looks beyond the obvious sites, sources, and modes of policing to show the distinctions between the act of policing and the institution of the police.