01742nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100002500060245008300085260004600168300003600214520100500250650011301255773004601368906004001414942000701454952011101461  c514222d514222201016b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aAnkit, Rakesh918707  aIn the hands of a secular state: Meos in the aftermath of partition, 1947–49  aIndian Economic and Social History Review  a56(4), Oct-Dec, 2019: p.457-488  aThis article focuses on unpacking the workings of the independent Indian nation-state in the region of Mewat in the aftermath of Partition violence, particularly the state’s rendering of the Meo community there as a minority. This violence has been called a ‘rite of political and territorial passage’ and ‘systemic ethnic cleansing’ by scholars Shail Mayaram and Ian Copland, respectively. Building upon their works, this article focuses on state actors and details their ‘rule of difference’ in the treatment of Meos through the years 1947 to 1949, that is, from their displacement to the conditions of their resettlement. This documentation is done by accessing the hitherto unused files of the Ministry of States, the Ministry of Relief and Rehabilitation, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Prime Minister’s Secretariat at the National Archives, and the post-1947 papers of Jawaharlal Nehru and Pandit Sunder Lal held at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. – Reproduced


  aIndia - History - 20th century, Meo community – India, Meos, Partition, Resettlement, Violence    I918672  aIndian Economic and Social History Review  aINDIA – HISTORY - PARTITION, 1947  cAR  00102ddc40709388233aIIPAbIIPAd2020-10-16h56(4), Oct-Dec, 2019: p.457-488pAR123261r2020-10-16yAR