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THIS LAND IS MINE, I AM NOT OF THIS LAND CAA-NRC AND THE MANUFACTURE OF STATELESSNESS

Author : Harsh Mander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789390477340
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book THIS LAND IS MINE, I AM NOT OF THIS LAND CAA-NRC AND THE MANUFACTURE OF STATELESSNESS written by Harsh Mander and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), passed by the Parliament of India in December 2019, promises citizenship to migrants of the 'Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan'. By excluding Muslims from the list and not extending the promise to refugees from any of India's non-Muslim-majority neighbours, the CAA makes religion the basis of citizenship for the first time in the history of the Republic. Many fear that this Act, coupled with a countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC), will eventually be used to disenfranchise India's Muslims, or to trap them in a permanent state of fear and insecurity, which has been the fate of millions of Bengali-origin Muslims of Assam. This Land is Mine, I Am Not of This Land brings together a comprehensive selection of essays that deal with the theoretical, political and subjective aspects of this issue. The first section traces the evolution of citizenship in India. The following section deals with the peculiar case of Assam. Covered here are the bureaucratic travesties unleashed in the name of protecting the state from 'external aggression' as well as their sobering human cost. The concluding sections expose the superfluousness of the National Population Register (NPR), and pose serious questions on the constitutionality of the CAA. The book argues that with a key value like citizenship in question, it is not just the destinies of India's citizens but the very democratic foundation of the Republic that is at stake.

The 1947 Partition of British India

Author : Leaning, Jennifer
Publisher : SAGE Publishing India
ISBN 13 : 9354793126
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book The 1947 Partition of British India written by Leaning, Jennifer and published by SAGE Publishing India. This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1947 Partition of British India remains the largest instance of forced migration in the recorded human history. Despite the passage of time, it is still widely seen as a process of singular distress and sorrow. Yet, for those in the subcontinent, the Partition also offers a process of self-exploration for subsequent generations. This book is the first collection of chapters related to the Partition studies wherein experts of various disciplines from the three major modern nation-states affected by this cataclysm - Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan - have closely collaborated to develop a nuanced assessment of the Partition as active in the present. The book casts a somber yet uplifting light on the enormous challenges the Partition imposed on societies struggling to emerge from generations of colonial rule into a post-war world depleted of resources and a future of uncertain prospects.

Blood, Censored

Author : Dinesh Mohan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789382579649
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Blood, Censored written by Dinesh Mohan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Citizenship Debate

Author : Amit Malviya
Publisher : Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789389967982
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Citizenship Debate written by Amit Malviya and published by Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited. This book was released on 2020 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: amid widespread protests, the Indian Parliament passed the citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 on 11 December 2019. A topic of heated debate, the caa has divided the country into two distinct groups-one section of people considers the apprehensions about the caa being a case of miss-readings of the Act, and the other thinks the 'non-secular' Act is a manifestation of the prejudices and malevolent agenda of the ruling party. But does either side really understand the caa? Or, for that matter, does anyone who has listened to the shrill and often unconvincing arguments for and against the Act? In this short but powerful book, Amit Malviya and Salman Khurshid present to us the two sides of the debate that took the country by storm. While offering insights into the history and politics of the citizenship debate, they leave it up to us to decide which side we are on.

New Songs of the Survivors

Author : Yvonne Vaz Ezdani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789385755217
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book New Songs of the Survivors written by Yvonne Vaz Ezdani and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, many of the Indians settled in Burma were killed following the bombing of Rangoon by the Japanese Air Force. Thousands more were forced to give up everything-their homes, their businesses and shops, even their families-and flee to India to escape the invasion. The lucky ones flew home. Others followed by ship, crossing the Bay of Bengal under constant threat of aerial and submarine bombardment. But most walked all the way, to Manipur and then Assam, braving hunger, disease, wild animals and exhaustion. Some walked the more hazardous route further north, across the Hukaung Valley, which came to be called the Valley of Death. Drawing primarily on recollections from the survivors and descendants of Burma's once-thriving Goan community, this compelling book is the first attempt to write an oral history of the 'Forgotten Long March'- one of the biggest and most harrowing migrations in recent history.

No Land's People

Author : Abhishek Saha
Publisher : HarperCollins India
ISBN 13 : 9789390351855
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book No Land's People written by Abhishek Saha and published by HarperCollins India. This book was released on 2021 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preparation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was an unprecedented exercise that sought to establish Indian citizenship of the state's 33 million residents. The process intersected with the already existing parallel mechanisms of

Manto-Saheb

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789388070393
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Manto-Saheb written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Saadat Hasan Manto has a good claim to be considered the greatest South Asian writer of the 20th century... [He] incarnated the exuberance, the madness, the alcoholic delirium of his time...'--Suketu Mehta, The New York Times This remarkable anthology brings together stories about Saadat Hasan Manto, essayist, scriptwriter, and a master of the short story, by his friends, family and rivals--among others, Ismat Chughtai, Upendranath Ashk, Balwant Gargi, Krishan Chander, his daughter Nuzhat and nephew Hamid Jalal. These are accounts of grand friendships and quarrels, protracted drinking bouts, cutthroat rivalries in the world of Urdu letters, and intense engagement with issues of that turbulent age. Together, they form an unprecedented portrait of the literary and film worlds of the time, and of the great cities of Bombay, Delhi and Lahore. They also offer a glimpse of the making of a legend even as they reveal Manto as a complex man of many contradictions. A devoted husband and father, he was as comfortable at home as he was at prostitutes' quarters, seeking new material. Generous to a fault, he freely gave away his earnings and often put his family in financial jeopardy. Fiercely competitive and an outspoken critic of others' writing, he brooked no criticism of his own, at times choosing to sever ties rather than have his words tampered with. And, for much of his adult life, right until the end, Manto was an alcoholic who fiercely defended his choice to remain one. Honest, frank and personal, at times sentimental, and critical--even gossipy--at others, the pieces in Manto-Saheb constitute an unparalleled, multi-faceted biography of a genius

A Little Book of Courage

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789388070089
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A Little Book of Courage written by Ruskin Bond and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the bestselling 'Little Book' series, a new title by India's favourite author Ruskin Bond What can a flower teach us about courage? Or a little red ant? When is speaking up brave, and when holding one's peace? Why must we look on with suspicion at all that comes easy? What is the ultimate measure of man? Ruskin Bond, India's favourite writer, draws from his own experiences, and those of some of the world's greatest thinkers and doers, to offer words of inspiration and wisdom. A Little Book of Courage is the perfect guide--to dip into and to gift--for the good times, and the tough.

Locking Down the Poor

Author : Harsh Mander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789389958775
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Locking Down the Poor written by Harsh Mander and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description In early 2020 the first cases of Covid-19 infection were confirmed in India, and on 24 March the country's prime minister announced a nationwide lockdown, giving the population of over 1.3 billion just four hours' notice. Within days, it became evident that India had plunged into its biggest humanitarian crisis since Partition. In this powerful book, Harsh Mander shows us how grave this crisis was and continues to be, and why it is the direct consequence of public policy choices that the Indian government made, particularly of imposing the world's longest and most stringent lockdown, with the smallest relief package. The Indian state abandoned its poor and marginalized, even as it destroyed their livelihoods and pushed them to the brink of starvation. Mander brings us voices of out-of-work daily-wage and informal workers, the homeless and the destitute, all overwhelmed by hunger and dread. From the highways and overcrowded quarantine centres, he brings us stories of migrant workers who walked hundreds of kilometres to their villages or were prevented from doing so and detained. He lays bare the criminal callousness at the heart of a strategy that forced people to stay indoors in a country where tens of crores live in congested shanties or single rooms with no possibility of physical distancing, no toilets and no running water. Combining ground reports with hard data, Mander argues with great clarity and passion that India is in the middle of a humanitarian catastrophe, the effects of which will be felt for decades

Putting the Ontological Back into Ontological Security

Author : Meredydd Rix
Publisher : Graduate Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 2940600244
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Putting the Ontological Back into Ontological Security written by Meredydd Rix and published by Graduate Institute Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study sets out to do two things. Firstly, it seeks to contribute to the burgeoning literature on ontological security in International Relations (IR)... Secondly, I hope to say something about Indian nationalism by making the case for Bangladesh’s importance in the project of nation-curation. I show how the uncodability of the Bangladeshi migrant and the Indian citizen presents an ontological threat to the Indian nation, portending an implosion of selfhood by undermining claims to an ontic reality for something called the Indian nation...

When the Mask Came Off

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ISBN 13 : 9789382579298
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book When the Mask Came Off written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sons of the Soil

Author : Myron Weiner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871719
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Sons of the Soil written by Myron Weiner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myron Weiner's study of the relationship between internal migration and ethnic conflict in India is exceptional for two reasons: it focuses on intercultural and interstate migration throughout the nation, rather than on merely local or provincial phenomena, and it examines both the social and the political consequences of India's interethnic migrations. Professor Weiner examines selected regions of India in which migrants dominate the modern sector of the economy. He describes the forces that lead individual Indian citizens to move from one linguistic-cultural region to another in search of better opportunities, and he attempts to explain their emergence at the top of the occupational hierarchy. In addition, the author provides an account of the ways in which the indigenous ethnic groups ("sons of the soil") attempt to use political power to overcome their fears of economic defeat and cultural subordination by the more enterprising, more highly skilled, better educated migrants. In addressing the fundamental clash between the migrants' claims to equal access to their country and the claims of the local groups to equal treatment and protection by the state, Professor Weiner considers some of the ways in which government policy makers might achieve greater equality among ethnic groups without simultaneously restricting the spatial and social mobility of some of its own people. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Midnight's Borders

Author : Suchitra Vijayan
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612198597
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Midnight's Borders written by Suchitra Vijayan and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Booklist "Top 10 History Book of 2022" The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested borders Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world's biggest crisis of statelessness, as it strips citizenship from hundreds of thousands of its people--especially those living in disputed border regions. Suchitra Vijayan traveled India's vast land border to explore how these populations live, and document how even places just few miles apart can feel like entirely different countries. In this stunning work of narrative reportage--featuring over 40 original photographs--we hear from those whose stories are never told: from children playing a cricket match in no-man's-land, to an elderly man living in complete darkness after sealing off his home from the floodlit border; from a woman who fought to keep a military bunker off of her land, to those living abroad who can no longer find their family history in India. With profound empathy and a novelistic eye for detail, Vijayan brings us face to face with the brutal legacy of colonialism, state violence, and government corruption. The result is a gripping, urgent dispatch from a modern India in crisis, and the full and vivid portrait of the country we've long been missing.

The Agra Double Murder

Author : Cecil Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789386582928
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book The Agra Double Murder written by Cecil Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909, Augusta Fullam, an English memsahib in Meerut, shocked polite English society by falling in love with Dr Clark, an Anglo-Indian of dubious reputation. Clark had long been unhappy in his marriage and upon meeting her, he instigated the double murder of their respective spouses. They conspired to slowly poison Mr Fullam. Bafflingly, Mrs Fullam described to Clark the effects of the poison on her husband in long passionate love letters. Mr Fullam eventually died in 1911 in Agra. Mrs Clark, though, was more poison-proof. So in 1912, a year after Fullam's death, the desperate pair hired assassins to kill her. While investigating the murder of Mrs Clark the police discovered incriminating evidence against the pair, and arrested them. In this riveting book, which became a bestseller when it was first published in 1929, Cecil Walsh systematically draws upon Mrs Fullam's letters to Clark, medical evidence and police and court records to recreate the gruesome murders. The true story of a crime of thwarted passion, The Agra Double Murder gives us fascinating insights into the minds of the perpetrators and a glimpse into life in colonial India.

Stealing Time

Author : Monish Bhatia
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030698971
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Stealing Time written by Monish Bhatia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws together empirical contributions which focus on conceptualising the lived realities of time and temporality in migrant lives and journeys. This book uncovers the ways in which human existence is often overshadowed by legislative interpretations of legal and illegalised. It unearths the consequences of uncertainty and unknowing for people whose futures often lay in the hands of states, smugglers, traffickers and employers that pay little attention to the significance of individuals’ time and thus, by default, their very human existence. Overall, the collection draws perspectives from several disciplines and locations to advance knowledge on how temporal exclusion relates to social and personal processes of exclusion. It begins by conceptualising what we understand by ‘time’ and looks at how temporality and lived realities of time combine for people during and after processes of migration. As the book develops, focus is trained on temporality and survival during encampment, border transgression, everyday borders and hostility, detention, deportation and the temporal impacts of border deaths. This book both conceptualises and realises the lived experiences of time with regard to those who are afforded minimal autonomy over their own time: people living in and between borders.

Governing Islam

Author : Julia Stephens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107173914
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Governing Islam written by Julia Stephens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephens argues that encounters between Islam and British colonial rule in South Asia were fundamental to the evolution of modern secularism.

Divorcing Traditions

Author : Katherine Lemons
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501734784
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Divorcing Traditions written by Katherine Lemons and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understanding of Indian secularism. Lemons analyzes four marital dispute adjudication forums run by Muslim jurists or lay Muslims to show that religious law does not muddle the categories of religion and law but generates them. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted in these four institutions—NGO-run women's arbitration centers (mahila panchayats); sharia courts (dar ul-qazas); a Muslim jurist's authoritative legal opinions (fatwas); and the practice of what a Muslim legal expert (mufti) calls "spiritual healing"—Divorcing Traditions shows how secularism is an ongoing project that seeks to establish and maintain an appropriate relationship between religion and politics. A secular state is always secularizing. And yet, as Lemons demonstrates, the state is not the only arbiter of the relationship between religion and law: religious legal forums help to constitute the categories of private and public, religious and secular upon which secularism relies. In the end, because Muslim legal expertise and practice are central to the Indian legal system and because Muslim divorce's contested legal status marks a crisis of the secular distinction between religion and law, Muslim divorce, argues Lemons, is a key site for understanding Indian secularism.