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Thus, in this contemporary polarised world one is forced to refl ect on Gandhi’s anguish on the uneven borderlines drawn in 1947, marginalisation from the discourse of the nation and untold stories of belongingness since they do not align... more
Thus, in this contemporary polarised
world one is forced to refl ect on Gandhi’s
anguish on the uneven borderlines
drawn in 1947, marginalisation from the
discourse of the nation and untold
stories of belongingness since they do
not align with the imagined statehood in
India or Pakistan. As expressed in the
present volume, Gandhi remains like
Manto’s fi ctional character—a citizen of
no country, stateless and permanently
in exile as we enter the 74th year of
independence.
world one is forced to refl ect on Gandhi’s
anguish on the uneven borderlines
drawn in 1947, marginalisation from the
discourse of the nation and untold
stories of belongingness since they do
not align with the imagined statehood in
India or Pakistan. As expressed in the
present volume, Gandhi remains like
Manto’s fi ctional character—a citizen of
no country, stateless and permanently
in exile as we enter the 74th year of
independence.
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The book Memories and Movements : Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch was published in 2013 by Orient Blackswan, New Delhi. It employs translation as ethnography and studies the many meanings of border in the region. The Maldhari... more
The book Memories and Movements : Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch was published in 2013 by Orient Blackswan, New Delhi. It employs translation as ethnography and studies the many meanings of border in the region. The Maldhari communities of Banni negotiate with change and continuity while also participating in the affect of Sindhi language.
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This research paper identifies the Pakistani-Hindu-Bhils as a borderland community to enable an understanding of borders as a social space. I advance this discussion by consolidating the cultural and material realities of borderland... more
This research paper identifies the Pakistani-Hindu-Bhils as a borderland community to enable an understanding of borders as a social space. I advance this discussion by consolidating the cultural and material realities of borderland communities especially in the South Asian context. To question the precarity of their identity vis-à-vis the borderland location, I further the argument of tribes facing dual exclusion on account of being Hindu minorities in Pakistan and a Scheduled Tribe in India. Although this is not to simplistically emphasize binaries rather understand the irreconcilable identities that the cross border community undergoes upon forced migration. The paper challenges the mainstream understanding of cross-border displacement and treatment towards borderland communities. The border experienced by people who cross them, live there, is vastly different from how states imagine the borderlands. This is contextualised and an attempt to evaluate epistemic thinking on borderlands through tribes located there is made.