Acknowledgements, Preface: Thinking with roads (Penny Harvey), 1 Why highways remake hierarchies (Luke Heslop and Galen Murton), 2 Stuck on the side of the road: Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal (Galen Murton and Tulasi Sharan Sigdel), 3 A road to the 'hidden place': Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet (Yi Huang), 4 Dhabas, highways, and exclusion (Swargajyoti Gohain), 5 The edge of Kaladan: A 'spectacular' road through 'nowhere' on the India-Myanmar Borderlands (Jasnea Sarma), 6 The making of a 'new Dubai': Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan (Mustafa A. Khan), 7 Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives: Gifts, hospitality, and rumours (Luke Heslop and Laura Jeffery), 8 Roads and the politics of thought: Climate in India, democracy in Nepal (Katharine Rankin and Edward Simpson), List of figures, Photos by author, Authors notes, Index.