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A contemporary archaeology of post-displacement resettlement : Delhi's 1947 partition refugee homescapes / Erin P. Riggs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riggs, Erin P., author.
- Series:
- Routledge archaeologies of the contemporary world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internally displaced persons--Housing--India--Delhi.
- Internally displaced persons.
- Internally displaced persons--India--Delhi--Social conditions.
- Internally displaced persons--India--Delhi--Economic conditions.
- Internally displaced persons--Government policy--India.
- Forced migration--India--Delhi--History--20th century.
- Forced migration.
- Delhi (India)--History--20th century.
- Delhi (India).
- India--History--Partition, 1947--Influence.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color).
- Other Title:
- Delhi's 1947 partition refugee homescapes
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Erin P. Riggs is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a contemporary and historical archaeologist, and her research interests include welfare state initiatives, material culture, built landscapes, national belonging, and displacement in the recent past.
- Contents:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- A city of refugees
- The reuse of a colonial capital as refugee resource
- The government refugee colony and dreams of egalitarianism-cum enterprise
- Refugees and evacuee properties: mitigating memories and meanings in reused out-migrant homes
- Refugees and government colonies: exercising autonomy in allotted space
- Those who build nations: belonging as lived and malleable
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2024).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Riggs, Erin P. Contemporary archaeology of post-displacement resettlement
- ISBN:
- 9781003247142
- 1003247148
- 9781003861805
- 1003861806
- 9781003861829
- 1003861822
- Publisher Number:
- 99996462920
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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