Citizenship Belonging And The Partition Of India
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Citizenship Belonging and the Partition of India
Author | : Neeti Nair |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2024-08-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781040114254 |
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This book revisits the aftermath of the partition of 1947, and the war of 1971, to examine some of the longer-term consequences of the redrawing of borders across South Asia. From the eastern frontier of Assam to the westernmost reaches of Gujarat and Sindh, the chapters in this volume study the “minority question” and show how it has manifested in different regional contexts. The authors ask how minorities have sought to belong, and trace how their sense of belonging has shifted with time. Working with “intercepted letters, pamphlets, and poetry”, novels and ethnographic fieldwork, each of these articles foreground the voices of the “refugee” and the “minority”. Taken together, the essays argue that a deep dive into how people have been affected by border-making and remaking in each of these frontier regions is integral to understanding the “big picture” that is South Asia. By drawing upon current research in history, memory studies and literature, this book will interest students, researchers and scholars of modern Indian history, Partition studies, colonial history, postcolonial studies, politics, and South Asian studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Asian Affairs.
Boundaries of Belonging
Author | : Sarah Ansari,William Gould |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2019-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107196056 |
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Explores citizenship, rights and belonging in post-Independence South Asia, examining the long-term impact of the 1947 Partition.
Muslim Belonging in Secular India
Author | : Taylor C. Sherman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Hyderabad (India) |
ISBN | : 1316374718 |
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Violent Belongings
Author | : Kavita Daiya |
Publsiher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2011-02-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781592137442 |
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Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards in order to offer a new, historical account of how gender and ethnicity came to determine who belonged, and how, in the postcolonial Indian nation.
Citizenship and Its Discontents
Author | : Niraja Gopal Jayal |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780674070998 |
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Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern India, Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals embodied in the constitution have been challenged by exclusions based on social and economic inequality, and sometimes also, paradoxically, undermined by its own policies of inclusion. Citizenship and Its Discontents explores a century of contestations over citizenship from the colonial period to the present, analyzing evolving conceptions of citizenship as legal status, as rights, and as identity. The early optimism that a new India could be fashioned out of an unequal and diverse society led to a formally inclusive legal membership, an impulse to social and economic rights, and group-differentiated citizenship. Today, these policies to create a civic community of equals are losing support in a climate of social intolerance and weak solidarity. Once seen by Western political scientists as an anomaly, India today is a site where every major theoretical debate about citizenship is being enacted in practice, and one that no global discussion of the subject can afford to ignore.
The Refugee Woman
Author | : Paulomi Chakraborty |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2018-07-27 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780199095391 |
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The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in three significant texts of the Partition of Bengal—Ritwik Ghatak’s film Meghe Dhaka Tara; and two novels, Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga and Sabitri Roy’s Swaralipi. It shows that the figure of the refugee woman, animated by the history of the political left and refugee movements, and shaped by powerful cultural narratives, can contest and reconstitute the very political imagination of ‘woman’ that emerged through the long history of dominant cultural nationalisms. The reading it offers elucidates some of the complexities of nationalist, communal, and communist gender-politics of a key period in post-independence Bengal.
Muslim Belonging in Secular India
Author | : Taylor C. Sherman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107095076 |
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Using the princely state of Hyderabad as a case study, Sherman surveys the experience of Muslim communities in postcolonial India.
Boats in a Storm
Author | : Kalyani Ramnath |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2023-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781503636101 |
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For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British empire. Set against the tumult of the postwar period, Boats in a Storm centers on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization. Even as nascent citizenship regimes and divergent political trajectories of decolonization papered over migrations between South and Southeast Asia, migrants continued to recount cross-border histories in encounters with the law. These accounts, often obscured by national and international political developments, unsettle the notion that static national identities and loyalties had emerged, fully formed and unblemished by migrant pasts, in the aftermath of empires. Drawing on archival materials from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London, and Singapore, Kalyani Ramnath narrates how former migrants battled legal requirements to revive prewar circulations of credit, capital, and labor, in a postwar context of rising ethno-nationalisms that accused migrants of stealing jobs and hoarding land. Ultimately, Ramnath shows how decolonization was marked not only by shipwrecked empires and nation-states assembled and ordered from the debris of imperial collapse, but also by these forgotten stories of wartime displacements, their unintended consequences, and long afterlives.