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Patriotism, Partition and the Persecuted: Social Biography of Victims of Partition book cover

1st Edition

Patriotism, Partition and the Persecuted Social Biography of Victims of Partition

By Debal K. SinghaRoy Copyright 2024
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the theme of continuous wreaking of brutal persecution of a Hindu family on the one hand and the uncompromising efforts of Muslim friends and neighbours to protect this family on the other. It is set against the resultant and barbaric forces let loose after the propagation of the two nation theory, and the ultimate partition of India in 1947. Based on the soical biography... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Patriotism, Ethnocentrism, Communalism and Nationalism: Changing Courses and Emerging Discourses

2. Communalism, Politics and the Partition of India in 1947: Belying the Patriotic Tradition

3. Partition and Persecution: Fakir and his Family as Minority in East Pakistan

4. Laltu’s Journey to India with Half Family: Struggles against Persecution on other Side of the Borders

5. Reunion of Half Family and Legacies for Laltu in India

6. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Debal K. SinghaRoy is former Professor of Sociology IGNOU, New Delhi. His works include Identity, Society and Transformative Social Categories; Towards a Knowledge Society; Peasant Movements in Post-Colonial India; Social Development and the Empowerment of the Marginalised; Women in Peasant Movements; Dissenting Voices and Transformative Action: Social Movements in a Globalising World; Surviving Against Odds: Marginalised in a Globalised World; Interrogating Social Development; Women, New Technology and Development; among others.

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