1st Edition
Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan Resettlement in Punjab, 1947-1962
Introduction 1. Memories, Swords, Blood and Freedom: when independence came to India and Pakistan 2. Camps, Homes, Towns and Villages 3. Patronage, bureaucratic unruliness and the resettling of Partition refugees in everyday Pakistani Punjab, 1947-1962 4. Punjab Assembly, party seats, electoral boxes 5. Constituent Assembly and neighbours Conclusion
Biography
Elisabetta Iob is a historian currently based at the Department of Social Sciences and Politics, University of Trieste, Italy. Her collaborations include the Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Lahore, Pakistan, and the local branches of the Ministries of Interior and Defence, Italy. Her research interests focus on Pakistan's socio-political history and culture.
Elisabetta Iob’s Refugees and the Politics of the Everyday State in Pakistan is a remarkable and poignant academic narrative that recounts the resettlement and rehabilitation of post-Partition refugees in Punjab, Pakistan after 1947. [... This book] is an intimately written book. Iob presents researchers of Partition with a new historical framework that analyzes refugee integration as impacted upon by emotions. And this contribution makes Iob’s research relevant for a larger readership on global migration. [...] Reading the book is very enjoyable and Iob’s academic analysis is astute. Deepra Dandekar, H-Soz-Kult, 23.05.2018.
