Patriotism, Partition and the Persecuted: Social Biography of Victims of Partition

ISBN-13: 9781032545905 / Angielski

Debal K. Singharoy

Opis

This book is founded on both individual and social memories shaped out of commu­nalisation of politics, Partition of the India, condition of staying back of a Hindu family as a religious minority in East Pakistan, their experiences of getting heart touching cooperation and support from Muslim neighbours and friends to thwart repeated commu­nal attacks in difficult situations, coercive episodes of migration from East Pakistan and Bangladesh to India, shocks and plights of uncertainties and refugeehood, and processes of naturalizing within the liberal plural socio-cultural fabrics therein. It 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.Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

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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

O autorze

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.