| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 254 pages) |
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Oxford historical monographs |
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Oxford historical monographs.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Making Refugees in India -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Outline -- 1: The Refugees' Imperial Past: The Search for Self-Determination in Empire -- Indian Movement within Empire -- The League of Nations -- The Minority-An Imperial Category -- 'Refugees' within India -- Non-Europeans -- The International Refugee -- A Separate Internationalism -- 2: Resisting an Alien Invasion of Principles: The Second World War and the New World of the UN -- Refugees of the War in British India -- Recognising Exclusions -- Imperialism and Humanitarianism |
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Scepticism of Western Human Rights -- The Refugee and Collective Rights -- Beginnings of a Separate Regime -- 3: Refugees to (Re)Build the Nation: Partition and the Humanitarianism of Developing the Postcolony -- Minorities, Migrations, Citizens -- Refugee Dissatisfaction and a New Political Constituency -- 'Refugee' in Kashmir and Hyderabad -- Planning and Rehabilitation -- Many Problems, Combined Solutions -- Outside the International Regime -- 4: A Nation-in-Exile in the Age of Non-Alignment: Rights for the Tibetan Refugees in India -- Cold War Refugees? |
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Human Rights versus Self-Determination -- Neutrality and Changing Afro-Asian Solidarity -- China's Position -- India Accepts the Refugees -- Keeping the International 'Refugee' at Bay -- Return? -- Political Humanitarianism -- Tibetan 'Refugees' versus Burmese Indian 'Repatriates' -- Tibetans in Indian Hospitality -- 5: Ten Million Reasons for Self-Determination: The 1971 East Pakistani Crisis and Its Many Solutions -- Deliberating a Response -- Pakistan's 'Internal Problem' -- International Responses: Differing on Rights and Self-Determination |
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Political Solution or Material Aid: Debating Return -- Reacting to a Disrupted Economy? -- Return of Refugees, Return of Stability -- State Enough for Refuge? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archives -- Published Primary Sources -- News and Magazines -- Published Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
Offering a global history of India's refugee regime, Making Refugees in India explores how one of the first postcolonial states during the mid-twentieth century wave of decolonisation rewrote global practices surrounding refugees - signified by India's refusal to sign the 1951 UN Refugee Convention |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Refugees -- Government policy -- India -- History -- 20th century
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India -- History -- 20th century
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Emigration and immigration
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Refugees -- Government policy
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192667885 |
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0192667882 |
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9780191945618 |
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0191945617 |
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9780192667878 |
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0192667874 |
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