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We are a group of academics working on migration, mobility, and decolonisation in South Asia beyond the lens of Partition. http://beyondpartition.wordpress.com

Beyond Partition Working Group reposted

Thanks @cisa, humbled by the honor. As mobilities of the agrarian poor continue to be criminalized across the Ind-BD border, my work traces the long history & force of militarization in borderland lives in northern Bengal.

CISA is delighted to announce Sahana Ghosh @sahanagee as the winner of the 2019 Sardar Patel Dissertation Award! international.ucla.edu/cisa/article/2…



Thanks to all our panelists for wonderful papers on histories of migration, citizenship, borders and identity in South Asia beyond Partition. Many thanks also to all our chairs and participants for incredibly thoughtful discussions!


On borders, conflict, and literature: Danny Shanahan @DannyShanahan6 on internal borderlands and the manufacture of consent in contemporary fiction about Kashmir #BeyondPartitionconference


Citizen Internees: Ilyas Chattha on Bengali Servicemen in Pakistan, 1971-1974 #BeyondPartitionconference


Territorial Marginality, Multiple Displacements and Militarized Lives: Chakraverti Mahajan @ChakravertiM draws on fieldwork notes from the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir #BeyondPartitionconference


The Politics of Language: Ahona Panda @ahona_panda on popular sovereignty and the language movement in East Pakistan #BeyondPartitionconference


Coming up in 5 minutes: our final panel on 'Postcolonial partitions and borders' chaired by Sarah Ansari. With papers from Ahona Panda @ahona_panda, Ilyas Chattha, Chakraverti Mahajan @ChakravertiM and Danny Shanahan @DannyShanahan6 #BeyondPartitionconference


Land, Property, and Belonging: Rohail Salman on state practices and Evacuee Property management in Pakistan, 1947-1958. #BeyondPartitionconference


Repartitioning identities and urban spaces: Asaf Ali Lone @aasafali on (Un)Bordering Muslim Identity in India. #BeyondPartitionconference


“It’s like crossing a border everyday”: Zoha Waseem @ZohaWaseem on police-migrant encounters in Karachi #BeyondPartitionconference


Starting now: Panel 5 on 'Cities, localities and migrant encounters' chaired by Anish Vanaik. With papers from Asaf Ali Lone, Zoha Waseem @ZohaWaseem and Rohail Salman. #Beyondpartitionconference


Family as the Political: Suraj Gogoi @char_chapori on emerging Citizenship Regimes in India #BeyondPartitionconference


Uprooted and Erased: Debasreeta Deb on the perils of citizenship and traumas of exclusion for Bengalis in Assam #BeyondPartitionconference


Beyond Native/Migrant Binaries: Anindita Chakrabarty on the inadequacy of solely utilising a 'partition lens' to understand the migration impetuses in Assam. #BeyondPartitionconference


Coming up in 15 minutes - our opening panel 'NRC, CAA and redefining citizenship in the North East' on Day 2 of the Beyond Partition conference. Chaired by Sahana Ghosh @sahanagee with papers from Anindita Chakrabarty, Debasreeta Deb and Suraj Gogoi @char_chapori


Beyond Partition Working Group reposted

Day 2 of our conference in just over an hour and we begin by looking at the impact of the NRC/CAA on Assam. Session 2 looks at cities and migration and our final session is on postcolonial partitions and borders. There’s still time to register here. eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-parti…


Mira Burmeister-Rudolph @Mira_B_Rudolph on Indian charity organizations’ mediation between low-wage labour migrants and migrant origin states in the Gulf countries #BeyondPartitionconference


Caste, race, diplomacy: Kalathmika Natarajan @KalathmikaN on the Indian diplomatic mediation of migrants deemed 'unskilled' and 'unsanitary' in postwar Britain. #BeyondPartitionconference


Jinal Parekh on the British Government’s response to the 'Kenyan Asian crisis', between 1967 and 1969. #BeyondPartitionconference


Food, migration, memory: Shenila Khoja-Moolji @SKhojaMoolji on the histories of Shia Ismaili Muslim women, their cookbooks, and culinary placemaking. #BeyondPartitionconference


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