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Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
The commander, or chief of staff, of the Israel Defense Forces
(IDF) is a prominent public figure in Israel. His decisions,
advice, and persona exert direct influence on force design and
military strategy, and indirectly impact social, economic, and
foreign affairs. This first-ever in-depth comparative study on the
role and performance of the IDF chiefs of staff throughout modern
Israel's history offers lessons for practitioners and students of
strategy, military history, and leadership everywhere.
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. Their reminiscences reveal divergent
negotiations of rehabilitation 'from below'. Educated refugees from
dominant castes mobilised their social and cultural capital to
build urban 'squatters' colonies', while poor Dalit refugees had to
perform the role of agricultural pioneers to access aid. Policies
of rehabilitation marginalised single and widowed women by treating
them as 'permanent liabilities'. These rich case studies
dramatically expand our understanding of popular politics and
everyday citizenship in post-partition India.
How did the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution affect everyone's
lives? Why did people re/negotiate their identities to adopt
revolutionary roles and duties? How did people, who lived with
different self-understandings and social relations, inevitably
acquire and practice revolutionary identities, each in their own
light?This book plunges into the contexts of these concerns to seek
different relations that reveal the Revolution's different
meanings. Furthermore, this book shows that scholars of the
Cultural Revolution encountered emotional and intellectual
challenges as they cared about the real people who owned an
identity resource that could trigger an imagined thread of
solidarity in their minds.The authors believe that the Revolution's
magnitude and pervasive scope always resulted in individualized
engagements that have significant and differing consequences for
those struggling in their micro-context. It has impacted a future
with unpredictable collective implications in terms of ethnicity,
gender, memory, scholarship, or career. The Cultural Revolution is,
therefore, an evolving relation beneath the rise of China that will
neither fade away nor sanction integrative paths.
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