RT Book
T1 Memories in the service of the Hindu nation: the afterlife of the partition of India
T2 South Asia in the social sciences
A1 Kohli, Pranav
LA English
PP Cambridge ; New York, NY
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1870320751
AB This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in Delhi and its surroundings between 2017-18. It locates the global rise of far-right nationalism within globalisation and memories of victimhood. Focussing on Hindu nationalism in India, this book is an important and timely contribution to the literature on South Asian Partition Studies that shows how tragedy begets tragedy. It tries to answer an urgent, provocative but nevertheless necessary question: 'What does it mean to remember the Partition in the time of fascism?' The author shows what makes up cycles of violence by connecting the reinscription of trauma in Partition memories to the self-serving justifications of the contemporary violence of Hindu nationalism. It analyses how the hegemony of Hindu nationalism has structured the narratives of Hindu Partition survivors and recruited them in service of a putative Hindu nation.
OP 373
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2023)
CN 954.04/2
SN 978-1-009-31869-3
SN 978-1-009-31868-6
K1 Political Violence : History : 20th century : India
K1 Political refugees : History : 20th century : India
K1 Nationalism : History : India
K1 Nationalism : Religious aspects : Hinduism
K1 Purushārtha
K1 Theodicy
K1 India : Personal narratives : History : Partition, 1947
K1 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) : History
K1 Punjab (Pakistan) : History
DO 10.1017/9781009318693