Bonded citizenship: Caste, partition, and the prevention of exit
By: Shahani, Uttara
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BookPublisher: Modern Asian Studies Description: 59(2), Mar, 2025: p. 427-454.Subject(s): Caste, Partition, Citizenship, Exit, Immigration, Mobility, Capital
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Modern Asian StudiesSummary: Historians of the Indian Partition focus on the permit systems the governments of India and Pakistan put in place to stem refugee entry and prevent the return of evacuees. However, the prevention of exit became, alongside non-entrée and the prevention of return, part of an official strategy of immobility in South Asia directed at marginalized castes. At Partition, Pakistan saw the labour of ‘non-Muslim’ marginalized castes as essential to its national wealth. It believed it had to retain them at all costs. On the other side of the border, the article discusses the Indian government’s laggardly, and often indifferent, response to the struggles of caste-oppressed groups trying to migrate to India. The article builds on scholarship on mobility capital and partial citizenship in the aftermath of Partition to argue that with the prevention of exit, citizenship incorporated an imposed nationalization that embodied the status of marginalized castes as more than a minority and produced a form of bonded citizenship.- Reproduced
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/bonded-citizenship-caste-partition-and-the-prevention-of-exit/1A5AE7961CCCF1388545EFDE2B9015B7
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Historians of the Indian Partition focus on the permit systems the governments of India and Pakistan put in place to stem refugee entry and prevent the return of evacuees. However, the prevention of exit became, alongside non-entrée and the prevention of return, part of an official strategy of immobility in South Asia directed at marginalized castes. At Partition, Pakistan saw the labour of ‘non-Muslim’ marginalized castes as essential to its national wealth. It believed it had to retain them at all costs. On the other side of the border, the article discusses the Indian government’s laggardly, and often indifferent, response to the struggles of caste-oppressed groups trying to migrate to India. The article builds on scholarship on mobility capital and partial citizenship in the aftermath of Partition to argue that with the prevention of exit, citizenship incorporated an imposed nationalization that embodied the status of marginalized castes as more than a minority and produced a form of bonded citizenship.- Reproduced
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/bonded-citizenship-caste-partition-and-the-prevention-of-exit/1A5AE7961CCCF1388545EFDE2B9015B7
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