Citizen Refugee - Forging the Indian Nation After Partition

Informationen zum Autor Uditi Sen is a historian of colonial and post-colonial India. She studied history at Presidency University and Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, before being awarded a D.Phil. from the University of Cambridge. She has taught history and South Asian studies in various institutions, including the European University Institute, Florence, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Hampshire College. In 2018, she joined the University of Nottingham as Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts. Klappentext Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.Uditi Sen explores how partition refugees were used as agents of nation-building in post-colonial India. Utilising archival records and oral histories, Sen analyses official policies towards Hindu refugees, and their own perspectives 'from below'. This book expands our understanding of popular politics and citizenship in post-partition India. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Framing Policy: 1. Unwanted citizens in a saturated state: towards a governmentality of rehabilitation; 2. Harnessed to national development: settlers, producers and agents of Hinduisation; Part II. Rebuilding Lives: 3: Exiles or settlers? Caste, governance and identity in the Andaman Islands; 4. Unruly citizens: memory, identity and the anatomy of squatting in Calcutta; 5. Gendered belongings: state, social workers and the 'unattached' refugee woman; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Uditi Sen, Uditi (Amherst College Sen, Uditi (University of Nottingham) Sen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108425612
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42561-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Pakistan, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, India, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, History and Archaeology, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Asia / South / General