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  1. Memories in the service of the Hindu nation
    the afterlife of the Partition of India
    Author: Kohli, Pranav
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in Delhi and its surroundings between 2017-18. It locates the global rise of far-right nationalism within... more

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    This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in Delhi and its surroundings between 2017-18. It locates the global rise of far-right nationalism within globalisation and memories of victimhood. Focussing on Hindu nationalism in India, this book is an important and timely contribution to the literature on South Asian Partition Studies that shows how tragedy begets tragedy. It tries to answer an urgent, provocative but nevertheless necessary question: 'What does it mean to remember the Partition in the time of fascism?' The author shows what makes up cycles of violence by connecting the reinscription of trauma in Partition memories to the self-serving justifications of the contemporary violence of Hindu nationalism. It analyses how the hegemony of Hindu nationalism has structured the narratives of Hindu Partition survivors and recruited them in service of a putative Hindu nation

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781009318686
    Series: South Asia in the social sciences ; 22
    Subjects: Anthropologie; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies; Demokratische Ideologien: Konservativismus, Mitte-rechts; Mündlich überlieferte Geschichte, Oral History; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus; Nationalism; Nationalismus; Oral history; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International; Physical anthropology; Religious & theocratic ideologies; Religiöse und theokratische Ideologien
    Scope: xiv, 373 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Acknowledgements; Glossary; Prologue: The Linguistic Setting; Part I. The Past and the Present: Introduction; 1. Listening to Ancestors: Ethnography in a Milieu of Memory; Part II: Sacrifice and Suffering: The Purusharth of Refugees; 2. Stories of Purusharth; 3. A Story Half Told: The Moral and Political Claims of Purusharth; 4. Sacrifice and Hard Work: Martyrdom as Theodicy; 5. The Purusharth of Women; Part III. Remembrance and Healing: Reflections on the Post-Partition Context; 6. The Fractured Nomos; 7. Remembering Violence; 8. Remembering Partition in the Time of Fascism; 9. Healing, Victimhood and Ressentiment; Conclusion: Field Notes on Global Authoritarianism; Works Cited; Index.