Citizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Nair, Neeti

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The authors of this volume ask how minorities have sought to belong, and trace how their sense of belonging has shifted with time. Working with "intercepted letters, pamphlets, and poetry", novels and ethnographic fieldwork, each of the articles in this book foreground the voices of the "refugee" and the "minority".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040114254
• Artikelnr.: 70883814

Autorenporträt

Neeti Nair is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia and Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Citizenship, Belonging, and The Partition of India 1.
Bordering Assam through Affective Closure: 1971 and the Road to The
Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 2. Citizenship And Social Belonging
Across the Thar: Gender, Family and Caste in the Context of the 1971 War
3. Language Without a Land: Partition, Sindhi Refugees, and the Eighth
Schedule of the Indian Constitution 4. The Roots of the Present are in the
Past: Recapitulating Partition through Intizar Husain's Novel, Basti 5.
After Hyderabad's 1948 Annexation: Muslim Belonging and Histories of the
Long Partition 6. Artificial 'Borders': Kashmiri Muslim Belonging in the
Aftermath of Partition 7. Poetry As Dissent and Placemaking in
Indian-Occupied Kashmir 8. Contested Sovereignty: Islamic Piety, Blasphemy
Politics, and the Paradox of Islamization in Pakistan