Since 1947 : partition narratives among Punjabi migrants of Delhi /

S̀ince 1947', an oft-encountered phrase in Delhi, has been used in this book for an incursion into the embedded themes of disruption in everyday life: forced migration, and then reparation; rearrangement; and renewed embodiment of the migrant's personal and social bearings. It explores how...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ravinder Kaur (Professor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Forced migration > India. Panjabis (South Asian people) > Relocation > India > Delhi. India > History > Partition, 1947 > Personal narratives. Delhi (India) > Emigration and immigration. Pakistan > Emigration and immigration. Inde > Histoire > 1947 (Partage) > Récits personnels. Emigration and immigration. Forced migration. Pakistan. India. India > Delhi. Teilung Umsiedlung Kollektives Gedächtnis Pandschab Delhi Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East. History & Archaeology. South Asia. 1947 Electronic books. History. Personal narratives.
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Table of Contents:

1. Narrating everyday forms of past : an introduction
2. State and community in the narratives of displacement
3. The last journey : exploring social class in partition migration
4. Governmental policies and practices of resettlement
5. Restoration of loss
6. Missing fields : the 'untouchable' migrants of partition
7. Claims of locality : at home in Delhi
8. Ethnic amnesia : identity making among Punjabi Hindus
9. A community of narrative.