Partition's Legacies

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Identities, Decolonisation, Nation-Making

1. Decolonisation in South Asia: The Long View

2. The Fashioning of a Frontier: The Radcliffe Line and Bengal's Border Landscape 1947-1952

3. The Bengali Muslim: A Contradiction in Terms? An Overview of the Debate on Bengali Muslim Identity

4. Secularisation and Constitutive Moments: Insights from Partition Diplomacy in South Asia

Part II: Refugees, Mobility, Migration

5. Rights or Charity? The Debate over Relief and Rehabilitation in West Bengal 1947-1950

6. Migration Myths and the Mechanics of Assimilation: Two Community Histories from Bengal

7. Dispositions and Destinations: "Mobility Capital" and Migration in the Bengal Delta 1947-2007

8. Dispersal and the Failure of Rehabilitation: Refugee Camp-dwellers and Squatters in West Bengal

Part III: Immobility

9. Of Graveyards and Ghettos: Muslims in West Bengal 1947-1967

10. On Being Stuck in the Bengal Delta: Immobility in the "Age of Migration"

Part IV: Citizenship

11. From Subjecthood to Citizenship: Migration, Nationality, and the Post-imperial Global Order

12. Princes, Subjects, and Gandhi: Alternatives to Citizenship at the End of Empire

13. South Asian Histories of Citizenship 1946-1970

Index