Citizen Refugee
Uditi Sen · 2018
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About the book
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'.
Book details
- Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 6
- Pages
- 300
- ISBN
- 9781108425612
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