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Citizen refugee : forging the Indian nation after partition
- Title
- Citizen refugee : forging the Indian nation after partition / Uditi Sen, University of Nottingham.
- Author
- Sen, Uditi
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 285 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- This innovative study explores the interface between nation-building and refugee rehabilitation in post-partition India. Relying on archival records and oral histories, Uditi Sen analyses official policy towards Hindu refugees from eastern Pakistan to reveal a pan-Indian governmentality of rehabilitation. This governmentality emerged in the Andaman Islands, where Bengali refugees were recast as pioneering settlers. Not all refugees, however, were willing or able to live up to this top-down vision of productive citizenship. The reminiscences of refugees reveal divergent negotiations of rehabilitation 'from below'.
- Subjects
- Refugees
- Hindus
- India
- Citizenship
- Refugees > India > West Bengal > History > 20th century
- West Bengal (India) > Politics and government > 20th century
- Partition of India (1947)
- Politics and government
- 1900-1999
- India > History > Partition, 1947 > Influence
- Hindus > India > West Bengal > History > 20th century
- Citizenship > India > History > 20th century
- India > West Bengal
- History
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. Framing Policy. Unwanted Citizens in a Saturated State : Towards a Governmentality of Rehabilitation -- Harnessed to National Development : Settlers, Producers and Agents of Hinduisation -- Part II. Rebuilding Lives. Exiles or Settlers? : Caste, Governance and Identity in the Andaman Islands -- Unruly Citizens : Memory, Identity and the Anatomy of Squatting in Calcutta -- Gendered Belongings : State, Social Workers and the 'Unattached' Refugee Woman -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-452
- ISBN
- 9781108425612
- 1108425615
- LCCN
- 2017061461
- 40028588560
- OCLC
- 1022432314
- Author
- Sen, Uditi, author.
- Title
- Citizen refugee : forging the Indian nation after partition / Uditi Sen, University of Nottingham.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108689397
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028588560
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-452