Displacement and Exile: The State-Refugee Relations in India

by Abhijit Dasgupta

This study highlights some emerging issues in the study of displaced persons in India, like the agency and voices of people who flee across an international border, the identities they forge for themselves, their relations with the hosts and their interactions with the state and non-governmental organizations. Three case studies are examined here: (a). aPartition refugeesa, from East Pakistan to West Bengal, (b). Tamil refugees, from Sri Lanka to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199461171
• ISBN13: 9780199461172
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.7" x 8.8"