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020			_a9781108441094
082			_a305.9069140954 _bSEN
100			_aSen, Uditi
245			_aCitizen refugee: forging the Indian nation after partition
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c2020. _aCambridge:
300			_axvi, 285p.: _bill.; pbk; _c23cm.
504			_aIncludes appendices, index and references
520			_aThis 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. Their reminiscences 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. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/citizen-refugee/61B6847E8C0DF80B292E4159A54E3E90#fndtn-information
650			_aCitizenship
650			_aSouth Asian history
650			_aRefugees--Government policy
650			_aPolitics and government
650			_aHindu refugees
650			_aRefugees--History--Twentieth Century
650			_aWest Bengal--India--Hindus
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