Uditi Sen

Citizen Refugee

Forging the Indian Nation After Partition

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 164mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781108425612
• ISBN-10: 1108425615
• Artikelnr.: 51152457

Autorenporträt

Uditi Sen is a historian of colonial and post-colonial India. She studied history at Presidency University and Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, before being awarded a D.Phil. from the University of Cambridge. She has taught history and South Asian studies in various institutions, including the European University Institute, Florence, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Hampshire College. In 2018, she joined the University of Nottingham as Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

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.