Partitioned lives : migrants, refugees, citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-65 /

Partitioned lives : migrants, refugees, citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-65 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Roy, Haimanti.
Imprint:	New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Description:	xii, 254 p. ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Partition of India (1947) India -- History -- Partition, 1947. India -- History -- 1947- Pakistan -- History -- 20th century. India. Pakistan. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9785519

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ISBN:	9780198081777 0198081774
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-242) and index.
Summary:	"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."--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

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