Boundaries of Belonging: Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan

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The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed. Boundaries of Belonging shows how citizenship evolves at a time of political transition and what this meant for ordinary people, by directing attention away from South Asia's Partition 'hotspots' - Bengal and Punjab - to Partition's 'hinterlands' of Uttar Pradesh and Sindh. The analysis, based on rich archival research and fieldwork, brings out commonalities, differences, and the mutual co-construction of the 'citizen' in both places. It also reveals the way in which developments across the border, such as communal violence, could directly impact on minority rights in its neighbour. Questioning stereotypes of an increasingly 'authoritarian' Pakistan and 'democratic' India, Sarah Ansari and William Gould make a major contribution to recent scholarship that suggests the differences between India and Pakistan are overstated. Cover Half-title Title page Copyright information Epigraph Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Maps Introduction 1 'Performing the State' in Post-1947 India and Pakistan Personifying the Postcolonial State Projecting the New State Conclusion 2 People on the Move: Refugees and Minorities in Uttar Pradesh and Sindh Refugee Rehabilitation and the Predicament of Minorities Representing Refugees/Demonizing Minorities Marking Evacuees: Property and Its Control between India and Pakistan Conclusion 3 Citizens and the City: From People on the Move to the Movement of Goods Politics of Price Controls and Rationing Corruption and Anti-corruption Conclusion 4 New Constitutions, New Citizens 'New Constitutions' 'New Citizens' Conclusion 5 Women and Differentiated Citizenship in Postcolonial South Asia Colonial Developments Post-1947 India Post-1947 Pakistan Conclusion 6 'Hidden Citizens' in 1940s and 1950s India and Pakistan Religious Minorities in Sindh and UP Dalit, Tribal and Hari Rights Conclusion Epilogue and Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Primary Sources Government Records Manuscripts Newspapers and Contemporary Publications Published Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index