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Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan: Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962: Royal Asiatic Society Books

Autor Elisabetta Iob
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 dec 2019
The Partition of India in 1947 involved the division of two provinces, Bengal and the Punjab, based on district-wise Hindu or Muslim majorities. The Partition displaced between 10 and 12 million people along religious lines.


This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the resettlement and rehabilitation of Partition refugees in Pakistani Punjab between 1947 and 1962. It weaves a chronological and thematic plot into a single narrative, and focuses on the Punjabi refugee middle and upper-middle class. Emphasising the everyday experience of the state, the author challenges standard interpretations of the resettlement of Partition refugees in the region and calls for a more nuanced understanding of their rehabilitation. The book argues the universality of the so-called 'exercise in human misery', and the heterogeneity of the rehabilitation policies. Refugees’ stories and interactions with local institutions reveal the inability of the local bureaucracy to establish its own 'polity' and the viable workability of Pakistan as a state. The use of Pakistani documents, US and British records and a careful survey of both the judicial records and the Urdu and English-language dailies of the time, provides an invaluable window onto the everyday life of a state, its institutions and its citizens.


A carefully researched study of both the state and the everyday lives of refugees as they negotiated resettlement, through both personal and official channels, the book offers an important reinterpretation of the first years of Pakistani history. It will be of interest to academics working in the field of refugee resettlement and South Asian History and Politics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367869151
ISBN-10: 0367869152
Pagini: 194
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Royal Asiatic Society Books

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Introduction  1. Memories, Swords, Blood and Freedom: when independence came to India and Pakistan  2. Camps, Homes, Towns and Villages  3. Patronage, bureaucratic unruliness and the resettling of Partition refugees in everyday Pakistani Punjab, 1947-1962  4. Punjab Assembly, party seats, electoral boxes  5. Constituent Assembly and neighbours  Conclusion

Notă biografică

Elisabetta Iob is a historian currently based at the Department of Social Sciences and Politics, University of Trieste, Italy. Her collaborations include the Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Lahore, Pakistan, and the local branches of the Ministries of Interior and Defence, Italy. Her research interests focus on Pakistan's socio-political history and culture.



Recenzii

Elisabetta Iob’s Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan is a remarkable and poignant academic narrative that recounts the resettlement and rehabilitation of post-Partition refugees in Punjab, Pakistan after 1947. [... This book] is an intimately written book. Iob presents researchers of Partition with a new historical framework that analyzes refugee integration as impacted upon by emotions. And this contribution makes Iob’s research relevant for a larger readership on global migration. [...] Reading the book is very enjoyable and Iob’s academic analysis is astute. Deepra Dandekar, H-Soz-Kult, 23.05.2018.

Descriere

This book provides an analysis of the resettlement and rehabilitation of Partition refugees in Pakistani Punjab between 1947 and 1962. It weaves a chronological and thematic plot into a single narrative and focuses on the Punjabi refugee middle and upper-middle class. The author challenges interpretations of the resettlement of Partition refugee