Making refugees in India / Ria Kapoor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapoor, Ria, 1992- author.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs.

Oxford Historical Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Government policy--India--History--20th century.

Refugees.

Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--India--History--20th century.

India--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Offering a global history of India's refugee regime, 'Making Refugees' in India explores how one of the first postcolonial states during the mid-twentieth century wave of decolonisation rewrote global practices surrounding refugees - signified by India's refusal to sign the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.

Contents:

Cover

Making Refugees in India

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Outline

1: The Refugees' Imperial Past: The Search for Self-Determination in Empire

Indian Movement within Empire

The League of Nations

The Minority-An Imperial Category

'Refugees' within India

Non-Europeans

The International Refugee

A Separate Internationalism

2: Resisting an Alien Invasion of Principles: The Second World War and the New World of the UN

Refugees of the War in British India

Recognising Exclusions

Imperialism and Humanitarianism

Scepticism of Western Human Rights

The Refugee and Collective Rights

Beginnings of a Separate Regime

3: Refugees to (Re)Build the Nation: Partition and the Humanitarianism of Developing the Postcolony

Minorities, Migrations, Citizens

Refugee Dissatisfaction and a New Political Constituency

'Refugee' in Kashmir and Hyderabad

Planning and Rehabilitation

Many Problems, Combined Solutions

Outside the International Regime

4: A Nation-in-Exile in the Age of Non-Alignment: Rights for the Tibetan Refugees in India

Cold War Refugees?

Human Rights versus Self-Determination

Neutrality and Changing Afro-Asian Solidarity

China's Position

India Accepts the Refugees

Keeping the International 'Refugee' at Bay

Return?

Political Humanitarianism

Tibetan 'Refugees' versus Burmese Indian 'Repatriates'

Tibetans in Indian Hospitality

5: Ten Million Reasons for Self-Determination: The 1971 East Pakistani Crisis and Its Many Solutions

Deliberating a Response

Pakistan's 'Internal Problem'

International Responses: Differing on Rights and Self-Determination

Political Solution or Material Aid: Debating Return

Reacting to a Disrupted Economy?

Return of Refugees, Return of Stability

State Enough for Refuge?.

Conclusion

Bibliography

Archives

Published Primary Sources

News and Magazines

Published Secondary Sources

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kapoor, Ria Making Refugees in India

ISBN:

0-19-194561-7

0-19-266787-4

0-19-266788-2