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Citizen Refugee - Forging the Indian Nation after Partition (Hardcover)
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Citizen Refugee - Forging the Indian Nation after Partition (Hardcover)
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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.
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