Debal K Singharoy

Patriotism, Partition and the Persecuted

Social Biography of Victims of Partition

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Produktbeschreibung

This book illustrates the intertwining of the local (family, neighbourhood, village(s)) dynamics of patriotism, communalism and nationalism with the wider (regional and national) social and political processes through a social biography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781032545905
• ISBN-10: 1032545909
• Artikelnr.: 67823435

Autorenporträt

Debal K. SinghaRoy is former Professor of Sociology IGNOU, New Delhi. His works include Identity, Society and Transformative Social Categories; Towards a Knowledge Society; Peasant Movements in Post-Colonial India; Social Development and the Empowerment of the Marginalised; Women in Peasant Movements; Dissenting Voices and Transformative Action: Social Movements in a Globalising World; Surviving Against Odds: Marginalised in a Globalised World; Interrogating Social Development; Women, New Technology and Development; among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Patriotism, Ethnocentrism, Communalism and Nationalism: Changing Courses
and Emerging Discourses
2. Communalism, Politics and the Partition of India in 1947: Belying the
Patriotic Tradition
3. Partition and Persecution: Fakir and his Family as Minority in East
Pakistan
4. Laltu's Journey to India with Half Family: Struggles against Persecution
on other Side of the Borders
5. Reunion of Half Family and Legacies for Laltu in India
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index