‘I am You, as You are Me’: Replicative Adaptability and Capacities of Resilience in Chhit Sheupara

In former enclaves of the India–Bangladesh borderlands, trans-local interactions evinced adaptations in response to recurrent shifts in their categorical and experiential peripheralities. This case study of Chhit Sheupara assesses the disconnect in its categorizations as a ‘stateless’ space through an exploration of local negotiations to bypass its ascriptive isolations. The study analyses proxy-citizenship and limited governance as configurations of Sheupara’s adaptive resilience, as a part of local efforts to subvert and circumvent their erstwhile stateless existence within a dynamic borderland locale through reproductions of normativity and instrumentalities of state civicism.