Memories in the service of the Hindu nation: the afterlife of the partition of India
This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in Delhi and its surroundings between 2017-18. It locates the global rise of far-right nationalism within globalisation and memories of victimhood. Focussin...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | South Asia in the social sciences
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| Further subjects: | B
Nationalism
History (India)
B Purushārtha B Political Violence History 20th century (India) B Theodicy B Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) History B Nationalism Religious aspects Hinduism B Punjab (Pakistan) History B Political refugees History 20th century (India) B India Personal narratives History Partition, 1947 |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781009318686 |
| Summary: | This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in Delhi and its surroundings between 2017-18. It locates the global rise of far-right nationalism within globalisation and memories of victimhood. Focussing on Hindu nationalism in India, this book is an important and timely contribution to the literature on South Asian Partition Studies that shows how tragedy begets tragedy. It tries to answer an urgent, provocative but nevertheless necessary question: 'What does it mean to remember the Partition in the time of fascism?' The author shows what makes up cycles of violence by connecting the reinscription of trauma in Partition memories to the self-serving justifications of the contemporary violence of Hindu nationalism. It analyses how the hegemony of Hindu nationalism has structured the narratives of Hindu Partition survivors and recruited them in service of a putative Hindu nation. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2023) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 373 pages), digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 978-1-009-31869-3 978-1-009-31868-6 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781009318693 |
