Partitioned Lives

Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-1965
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-808177-7
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

The processes of establishing new national orders in the aftermath of the Partition entailed that minorities-Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in India-had to re-negotiate their identities as rightful citizens. This book focuses on the partition of Bengal, its effects on minorities, and the subsequent reordering of national identities in India and East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh). Divided in three thematic sections, it examines issues of territoriality, identity, migration, and citizenship.
This volume joins new scholarship on the Partition, which sees it as a process rather than a single event. It provides a cross border analysis of how India and East Pakistan engaged with their post-Partition predicaments and how ordinary people on both sides reacted, adopted, and negotiated.

This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history, sociology, and the interested general reader.

Zielgruppe

This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history, sociology, and the interested general reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roy, Haimanti

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Terminology
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Partitioned Histories, Divided Identities
Part I. Territories:
1: Drafting a New Nation
2: Limits of the Nation
Part II. Citizens:
3: Home and Hearth
4: Citizens of the Nation
Part III. Identities:
5: The Routine of Violence
6: Refugees and the Indian State
Epilogue:
After Midnight
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Haimanti Roy is Assistant Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.