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This book illustrates the intertwining of the local (family, neighbourhood, village(s)) dynamics of patriotism, communalism and nationalism with the wider (regional and national) social and political processes through a social biography.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Patriotism, Ethnocentrism, Communalism and Nationalism: Changing Courses and Emerging Discourses
2. Communalism, Politics and the Partition of India in 1947: Belying the Patriotic Tradition
3. Partition and Persecution: Fakir and his Family as Minority in East Pakistan
4. Laltu's Journey to India with Half Family: Struggles against Persecution on other Side of the Borders
5. Reunion of Half Family and Legacies for Laltu in India
6. Conclusion
Bibliography Index
About the author
Debal K. SinghaRoy is former Professor of Sociology IGNOU, New Delhi. His works include
Identity, Society and Transformative Social Categories; Towards a Knowledge Society; Peasant Movements in Post-Colonial India; Social Development and the Empowerment of the Marginalised; Women in Peasant Movements; Dissenting Voices and Transformative Action: Social Movements in a Globalising World; Surviving Against Odds: Marginalised in a Globalised World; Interrogating Social Development; Women, New Technology and Development; among others.
Summary
This book illustrates the intertwining of the local (family, neighbourhood, village(s)) dynamics of patriotism, communalism and nationalism with the wider (regional and national) social and political processes through a social biography.
