Making Refugees in India

Offering a global history of India's refugee regime, Making Refugees in India explores how one of the first postcolonial states during the mid-twentieth century wave of decolonisation rewrote global practices surrounding refugees - signified by India's refusal to sign the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The Refugees' Imperial Past: The Search for Self-Determination in Empire


• 2: Resisting an Alien Invasion of Principles: The Second World War and the New World of the UN


• 3: Refugees to (Re)Build the Nation: Partition and the Humanitarianism of Developing the Postcolony


• 4: A Nation-in-Exile in the Age on Non-Alignment: Rights for the Tibetan refugees in India


• 5: 10 Million Reasons for Self-Determination: the 1971 East Pakistani Crisis and its many Solutions


• Conclusion

About the author

Ria Kapoor completed a DPhil in History at the University of Oxford in 2019. She is now a Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and an editorial fellow with History Workshop Online.

Summary

Offering a global history of India's refugee regime, Making Refugees in India explores how one of the first postcolonial states during the mid-twentieth century wave of decolonisation rewrote global practices surrounding refugees - signified by India's refusal to sign the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.

Product details

• Authors: Ria Kapoor, Ria (Simon Research Fellow Kapoor, Ria (Teaching Fellow Kapoor
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780192855459
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285545-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Asian History, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Asia / South / General