Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State - Gujarat Since 2002

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Glossary of terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Demography and population movements in Gujarat; 2. Vatani to Visthapit: violence and displacement in 2002; 3. Relief instead of rights: the governance of communal violence; 4. Reconstruction and rights through self-help; 5. Violence and good governance; Bibliography.

About the author

Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande teaches at the Department of Civics and Politics at the University of Mumbai. Following her doctoral research at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, she authored a chapter and was involved with research for a collaboration between the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the London School of Economics and Political Science for their volume on Governance and the Governed. Her research interests are forced migration studies, governance and the state.

Summary

This book examines the notion of citizenship for Muslims who were displaced after the Godhra violence in Gujarat in 2002. Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande addresses the migration-displacement debate by chronicling what happened and seeks to locate the rights claims of the displaced in the dominant debates on citizenship.

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'The book is noteworthy because it manages to carve an original path through heavily-trampled terrain; that is not to say, however, the burden of existing literature does not weigh heavily in the text. … There are a great many interviews hidden away in the book. Shining through these now-standard narratives are glimpses into the lives and tribulations of real people who experienced these events in their homes and on the streets; people who had near misses; and people who saw and heard things that they later wished they had not.' Edward Simpson, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

Product details

• Authors: Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande, Sanjeevini Badigar (University of Mumbai Lokhande, Lokhande Sanjeevini Badigar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108814119
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81411-9
• No. of pages: 227
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Violence in society, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements, Violence and abuse in society