Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation After Partition

ISBN-13: 9781108441094 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 303 str.

Uditi Sen

Opis

Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Framing Policy: 1. Unwanted citizens in a saturated state: towards a governmentality of rehabilitation; 2. Harnessed to national development: settlers, producers and agents of Hinduisation; Part II. Rebuilding Lives: 3: Exiles or settlers? Caste, governance and identity in the Andaman Islands; 4. Unruly citizens: memory, identity and the anatomy of squatting in Calcutta; 5. Gendered belongings: state, social workers and the 'unattached' refugee woman; Conclusion.