Memories in the Service of the Hindu Nation: The Afterlife of the Partition of India 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 9781009318693
• ISBN-13: 1009318691
• Author: Pranav Kohli

This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in Delhi and its surroundings between 2017-18. It locates the global rise of far-right nationalism within globalisation and memories of victimhood. Focussing on Hindu nationalism in India, this book is an important and timely contribution to the literature on South Asian Partition Studies that shows how tragedy begets tragedy. It tries to answer an urgent, provocative but nevertheless necessary question: ‘What does it mean to remember the Partition in the time of fascism?’ The author shows what makes up cycles of violence by connecting the reinscription of trauma in Partition memories to the self-serving justifications of the contemporary violence of Hindu nationalism. It analyses how the hegemony of Hindu nationalism has structured the narratives of Hindu Partition survivors and recruited them in service of a putative Hindu nation.

Table contents:

1 Liatenging to Ancestors: Ethnography in a Milieu of Memory

2 Stories of Purusharth

3 A Stories Half Told: The Moral and Political Claims of Puursharth

4 Sacrifice and Hard Work: Martyrdom as Theodicy

5 The Purusharth of Women

6 The Fractured Nomos

7 Remembering Violence

8 Remembering Partition in the Time of Fascism

9 Healing, Victimhood and Ressentiment

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