Making a Nation in High Mountains: Balawars and Balawaristan Nationalism in Ghizer District of Gilgit Baltistan

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  • Sohaib Bodla

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https://doi.org/10.15460/ethnoscripts.2014.16.1.777

Keywords:

Pakistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, anthropology

Abstract

Making a Nation in High Mountains: Balawars and
Balawaristan Nationalism in Ghizer District of Gilgit Baltistan

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Received

2015-02-11

Accepted

2015-02-25

Published

2025-12-04

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2014): Anthropology of Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan

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Special Issue

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Bodla, S. (2025). Making a Nation in High Mountains: Balawars and Balawaristan Nationalism in Ghizer District of Gilgit Baltistan. Ethnoscripts, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.15460/ethnoscripts.2014.16.1.777