Gendering distance: marriage and mobility in Bangladesh’s riverine borderlands

This chapter explores how marital life worlds and the anticipa-tion of new conjugal futures unevenly gather circuits of mobility and exchange in Bangladesh. The diverse relationships that marriage has with mobility open new lines of enquiry for probing borderlands as sites of negotiations and belongings amidst nation-building and the force of transnational imaginaries. As containers of culture and mobility, mar-riages realign questions of distance in territorial and emotional terms. This chapter casts historical and ethnographic attention to marriage and conjugality from the borderland chars of Kurigram district in Bangladesh, which adjoin India.