All Outputs (3)
Developing Terra Nullius: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Indigeneity in the Andaman Islands (2017)
Journal Article
Copyright © 2017 Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History. This article explores the legal structures and discursive framings informing the governance of one particular backward region of India, the Andaman Islands. I trace the shifti... Read More about Developing Terra Nullius: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Indigeneity in the Andaman Islands.
The myths refugees live by: memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity (2013)
Journal Article
Within the popular memory of the partition of India, the division of Bengal continues to evoke themes of political rupture, social tragedy and nostalgia. The refugees, or more broadly speaking, Hindu migrants from East Bengal, are often the central a... Read More about The myths refugees live by: memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity.