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100 _aShahani, Uttara
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245 _aBonded citizenship: Caste, partition, and the prevention of exit
260 _aModern Asian Studies
300 _a59(2), Mar, 2025: p. 427-454
520 _aHistorians 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
650 _aCaste, Partition, Citizenship, Exit, Immigration, Mobility, Capital.
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773 _aModern Asian Studies
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