Book contents
- Boundaries of Belonging
- Boundaries of Belonging
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Performing the State’ in Post-1947 India and Pakistan
- 2 People on the Move
- 3 Citizens and the City
- 4 New Constitutions, New Citizens
- 5 Women and Differentiated Citizenship in Postcolonial South Asia
- 6 ‘Hidden Citizens’ in 1940s and 1950s India and Pakistan
- Epilogue and Conclusion
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - People on the Move
Refugees and Minorities in Uttar Pradesh and Sindh
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2019
- Boundaries of Belonging
- Boundaries of Belonging
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Performing the State’ in Post-1947 India and Pakistan
- 2 People on the Move
- 3 Citizens and the City
- 4 New Constitutions, New Citizens
- 5 Women and Differentiated Citizenship in Postcolonial South Asia
- 6 ‘Hidden Citizens’ in 1940s and 1950s India and Pakistan
- Epilogue and Conclusion
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 2 explores how in 1940s and 1950s South Asia thinking about Indian or Pakistani identity as a mirror of the ‘other’ country affected broader understandings of citizenship and belonging. It highlights the extent to which everyday public opinion could be conditioned by localized reactions to people arriving from other places or others leaving their families and goods behind, particularly in relation to UP and Sindh. The creation of two independent countries meant that the movement, displacement and rehabilitation of migrants became an integral part of the wider process of formal citizenship definition, as did the status of minority communities who did not leave. The chapter therefore also considers how far the physical movement bound up in the creating of two separate states at Independence shaped quotidian meanings of ‘citizenship’ as people competed for space and resources.
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- Boundaries of BelongingLocalities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan, pp. 67 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019