Citizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India

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.

This book revisits the aftermath of the partition of 1947, and the war of 1971, to examine some of the longer-term consequences of the redrawing of borders across South Asia. From the eastern frontier of Assam to the westernmost reaches of Gujarat and Sindh, the chapters in this volume study the minority question and show how it has manifested in different regional contexts. The authors 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 these articles foreground the voices of