
Displacement and Exile
The State-Refugee Relations in India
Abhijit Dasgupta(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published in December 2016
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-19-946117-2 (ISBN)
Description
This study highlights some emerging issues in the study of displaced persons in India, like the agency and voices of people who flee across an international border, the identities they forge for themselves, their relations with the hosts and their interactions with the state and non-governmental organizations. Three case studies are examined here: (a). 'Partition refugees', from East Pakistan to West Bengal, (b). Tamil refugees, from Sri Lanka to India and (c). Bangladesh Liberation War refugees from East Pakistan to West Bengal. The reader will find that each case is in itself highly complex. The treatment meted out to the displaced people in India has not been consistent. This study shows that the responses of the state to cross-border displacement have been varied over time and space. The Indian state has sovereign rights to decide who is to be considered as a refugee, who should receive relief and rehabilitation and who is to be repatriated. In the absence of national laws for the refugees in India, the state is the final arbitrator on all such matters.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
9 maps, 25 tables
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-946117-2 (9780199461172)
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Person
ABHIJIT DASGUPTA is a Professor, Dept of Sociology, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Content
Acknowledgements ; List of Tables ; List of Maps ; List of Illustrations ; Introduction ; 1. Residues of Partition: Displaced Bengalis in West Bengal ; 2. Three Decades in Exile: Sri Lankan Tamils in India ; Conclusion ; References ; Glossary ; Index ; About the Author