On Uncertain Ground
Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir
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9780199466771
Publication date:
10/11/2016
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296 pages
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ISBN:
9780199466771
Publication date:
10/11/2016
Hardback
296 pages
Ankur Datta
How do societies come to terms with dispossession, loss, nomadic existence, and protracted displacement? What does it mean to be a refugee in one’s own state? Centring on these questions, the current volume seeks to explore the lives of the Kashmiri Pandits—the Hindu Pandit minority of Kashmir Valley—and their experience of forced migration and the conflict over Jammu and Kashmir. Since 1989, Jammu and Kashmir has been affected by conflict between the Indian state and a movement demanding independence. As a result of this conflict, thousands of Kashmiri Pandits have left the valley and sought refuge in different parts of India, especially Jammu and New Delhi. Addressing the themes of violence, suffering, and victimhood in the context of forced migration, On Uncertain Ground explores the experiences of Kashmiri Pandits’ rebuilding their lives after displacement, their relationship to the Indian state, and Indian and Kashmiri nationalism. Focusing on ‘camp colonies’ and the lives of Kashmiri Pandits across Jammu and New Delhi, this book reveals the tension between the recovery of everyday life and the inability to feel at home and find one’s place in the world.
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Ankur Datta
Description
How do societies come to terms with dispossession, loss, nomadic existence, and protracted displacement? What does it mean to be a refugee in one’s own state? Centring on these questions, the current volume seeks to explore the lives of the Kashmiri Pandits—the Hindu Pandit minority of Kashmir Valley—and their experience of forced migration and the conflict over Jammu and Kashmir.
Since 1989, Jammu and Kashmir has been affected by conflict between the Indian state and a movement demanding independence. As a result of this conflict, thousands of Kashmiri Pandits have left the valley and sought refuge in different parts of India, especially Jammu and New Delhi. Addressing the themes of violence, suffering, and victimhood in the context of forced migration, On Uncertain Ground explores the experiences of Kashmiri Pandits’ rebuilding their lives after displacement, their relationship to the Indian state, and Indian and Kashmiri nationalism. Focusing on ‘camp colonies’ and the lives of Kashmiri Pandits across Jammu and New Delhi, this book reveals the tension between the recovery of everyday life and the inability to feel at home and find one’s place in the world.
About the Author
Ankur Datta teaches in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asian University, New Delhi.
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Ankur Datta
Table of contents
List of Tables, Maps, and Photographs
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Photographs
- In Place, Out of Place: An Introduction to the Kashmiri Pandits
- Accounting for Displacement: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
- Living in a Place of Exception: The Politics of Place and Everyday Life in a Displaced Persons’ Camp in Jammu and Kashmir
- Dealing with Dislocation: Making Home and Place in Jammu
- Being a Kashmiri Pandit Migrant: Caste, Class, and Religious Identity
- Making a Claim on the Nation: The Politics of Victimhood and Marginality among Kashmiri Pandits
- Rights, Claims, and Community: Kashmiri Pandits and the Relief and Rehabilitation Programme
- Reflections
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Ankur Datta
Features
- There has been little ethnography published on internally displaced persons. This text is a contribution to the field of forced migration and internal displacement studies.
- The Kashmiri Pandit certainly occupies a difficult political location today; this work explores the social position of the displaced Pandits from camps to the larger city of Jammu and their relationship to nationalisms both Indian and Kashmiri, and the state.
- This book looks at dispossession of those who do not come across as stereotypical victims. This book is a contribution to Kashmiri studies.
Ankur Datta
Description
How do societies come to terms with dispossession, loss, nomadic existence, and protracted displacement? What does it mean to be a refugee in one’s own state? Centring on these questions, the current volume seeks to explore the lives of the Kashmiri Pandits—the Hindu Pandit minority of Kashmir Valley—and their experience of forced migration and the conflict over Jammu and Kashmir.
Since 1989, Jammu and Kashmir has been affected by conflict between the Indian state and a movement demanding independence. As a result of this conflict, thousands of Kashmiri Pandits have left the valley and sought refuge in different parts of India, especially Jammu and New Delhi. Addressing the themes of violence, suffering, and victimhood in the context of forced migration, On Uncertain Ground explores the experiences of Kashmiri Pandits’ rebuilding their lives after displacement, their relationship to the Indian state, and Indian and Kashmiri nationalism. Focusing on ‘camp colonies’ and the lives of Kashmiri Pandits across Jammu and New Delhi, this book reveals the tension between the recovery of everyday life and the inability to feel at home and find one’s place in the world.
About the Author
Ankur Datta teaches in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asian University, New Delhi.
Kindly download the flyer for more details.
Table of contents
List of Tables, Maps, and Photographs
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Photographs
- In Place, Out of Place: An Introduction to the Kashmiri Pandits
- Accounting for Displacement: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
- Living in a Place of Exception: The Politics of Place and Everyday Life in a Displaced Persons’ Camp in Jammu and Kashmir
- Dealing with Dislocation: Making Home and Place in Jammu
- Being a Kashmiri Pandit Migrant: Caste, Class, and Religious Identity
- Making a Claim on the Nation: The Politics of Victimhood and Marginality among Kashmiri Pandits
- Rights, Claims, and Community: Kashmiri Pandits and the Relief and Rehabilitation Programme
- Reflections
Bibliography
Index
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