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" Citizen refugee : "
Uditi Sen, University of Nottingham
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839444
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Sen, Uditi
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Citizen refugee : : forging the Indian nation after partition /\ Uditi Sen, University of Nottingham
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge,, 2018
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, ©2018
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1 online resource (xvi, 285 pages)
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1108348556
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: 1108689396
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1108425615
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9781108425612
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9781108441094
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Unwanted citizens in a saturated state: towards a governmentality of rehabilitation -- Harnessed to national development: settlers, producers and agents of Hinduisation -- Exiles or settlers?: Caste, governance and identity in the Andaman Islands -- Unruly citizens: memory, identity and the anatomy of squatting in Calcutta -- Gendered belongings: state, social workers and the 'unattached' refugee woman
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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'. Educated refugees from dominant castes mobilised their social and cultural capital to build urban 'squatters' colonies', while poor Dalit refugees had to perform the role of agricultural pioneers to access aid. Policies of rehabilitation marginalised single and widowed women by treating them as 'permanent liabilities'. These rich case studies dramatically expand our understanding of popular politics and everyday citizenship in post-partition India
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Citizenship-- India-- History-- 20th century.
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Hindus-- India-- West Bengal-- History-- 20th century.
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Refugees-- India-- West Bengal-- History-- 20th century.
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Citizenship.
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Hindus.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Politics and government.
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Refugees.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
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India, History, Partition, 1947, Influence.
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West Bengal (India), Politics and government, 20th century.
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India, West Bengal.
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India.
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305.9/06914095409045
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HV640.4.I4S47 2018eb
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