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Punjabi refugees’ rehabilitation and the Indian State: discourses, denials and dissonances

Punjabi refugees’ rehabilitation and the Indian State: discourses, denials and dissonances
Punjabi refugees’ rehabilitation and the Indian State: discourses, denials and dissonances
The article explores the dissonances between official accounts of the 1947 partition migrants' rehabilitation and the emerging narratives arising from personal testimonies. It sets out to explore the political and psychological explanations for these variations and also poses the question whether the gap between them would be closed if more first hand accounts were provided by subaltern groups. At present refugee narratives are dominated by members of the upper and middle classes
punjab, partition, refugees
0026-749X
109-130
Talbot, I.A.
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Talbot, I.A.
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Talbot, I.A. (2011) Punjabi refugees’ rehabilitation and the Indian State: discourses, denials and dissonances. [in special issue: 01 From Subjects to Citizens: Society and the Everyday State in India and Pakistan, 1947–1970] Modern Asian Studies, 45 (1), 109-130. (doi:10.1017/S0026749X10000284).

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The article explores the dissonances between official accounts of the 1947 partition migrants' rehabilitation and the emerging narratives arising from personal testimonies. It sets out to explore the political and psychological explanations for these variations and also poses the question whether the gap between them would be closed if more first hand accounts were provided by subaltern groups. At present refugee narratives are dominated by members of the upper and middle classes

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e-pub ahead of print date: November 2010
Published date: January 2011
Keywords: punjab, partition, refugees
Organisations: History

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Local EPrints ID: 79830
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/79830
ISSN: 0026-749X
PURE UUID: 373c12dd-93c8-4f0e-ab78-3d209f915e69

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Date deposited: 22 Mar 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 00:33

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