Citizen Refugee
Subtitle: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 11, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781108425612
Description: This innovative study explores the interface between nation-building and refugee rehabilitation in post-partition India. Relying on archival records and oral histories, Uditi Sen analyses official policy towards Hindu refugees from eastern Pakistan to reveal a pan-Indian governmentality of rehabilitation. This governmentality emerged in the Andaman Islands, where Bengali refugees were recast as pioneering settlers. Not all refugees, however, were willing or able to live up to this top-down vision of productive citizenship. The reminiscences of refugees reveal divergent negotiations of rehabilitation 'from below'.
Notes: Source title: Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition