Introduction : Power and care : building the new Indian state / Ranabir Samaddar -- Aliens in a colonial world / Paula Banerjee -- State response to the refugee crisis : relief and rehabilitation in the East / Samir Kumar Das -- Birth of social security commitments : what happened in the West / Ritu Menon -- Returnees and the refugees : migration from Burma / Subir Bhaumik -- Genocide of 1971 and the refugee influx in the East / K.C. Saha -- Uprooted twice : refugees from the Chittagong Hill tracts / Sabayasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury -- Gainers of a stalemate : the Tibetans in India / Rajesh Kharat -- Sheltering civilians and warriors : entanglements in the south / V. Suryanarayan -- Refugee women and children : need for protection and care / Asha Hans -- Paradoxes of the international regime of care : the role of the UNHCR in India / Sarbani Sen -- Status of refugees in India : strategic ambiguity / B.S. Chimni
Summary
This volume analyses India's reasonably good record of providing protection and hospitality to refugees, while pointing out the contradictions in the relation between these positive aspects and the manner in which state power has been exercised in post-colonial India. In examining the varied encounters between the state and refugees, the contributors demonstrate that India's story of providing care is simultaneously one of limiting care. It reveals the power of the state to decide whom to extend hospitality to and whom to deny it to. Thus, the issue of affording asylum becomes one of exercisin
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 472-482) and index
