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Citizen refugee : forging the Indian nation after partition / Uditi Sen, Nottingham University.
Van Pelt Library HV640.4.I4 S47 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sen, Uditi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugees--India--West Bengal--History--20th century.
- Refugees.
- Citizenship.
- History.
- Hindus.
- India--History--Partition, 1947--Influence.
- India.
- Hindus--India--West Bengal--History--20th century.
- Citizenship--India--History--20th century.
- West Bengal (India)--Politics and government--20th century.
- West Bengal (India).
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Politics and government.
- India--West Bengal.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 285 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- 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'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108425612
- 1108425615
- OCLC:
- 1022432314
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