Introduction: Citizenship, Belonging, and The Partition of India
Neeti Nair
1. Bordering Assam through Affective Closure: 1971 and the Road to The Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019
Antara Datta
2. Citizenship And Social Belonging Across the Thar: Gender, Family and Caste in the Context of the 1971 War
Farhana Ibrahim
3. Language Without a Land: Partition, Sindhi Refugees, and the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution
Uttara Shahani
4. The Roots of the Present are in the Past: Recapitulating Partition through Intizar Husain’s Novel, Basti
Mehr Afshan Farooqi
5. After Hyderabad’s 1948 Annexation: Muslim Belonging and Histories of the Long Partition
Sarah Waheed
6. Artificial ‘Borders’: Kashmiri Muslim Belonging in the Aftermath of Partition
Shahla Hussain
7. Poetry As Dissent and Placemaking in Indian-Occupied Kashmir
Ather Zia
8. Contested Sovereignty: Islamic Piety, Blasphemy Politics, and the Paradox of Islamization in Pakistan
Arsalan Khan
Biography
Neeti Nair is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia and Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC.
