Royal Holloway University of London Department of History and
The University of Leeds School of History
Event Date: 12 August 2009
From Subjects to Citizens: Society and the Everyday State in India and Pakistan 1947 – 1964
Programme / Index:
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Session I – Citizenship: concepts and problems
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Chair: Yasmin Khan (RHUL)
- Ornit Shani – ‘Concrete conceptions of citizenship and everyday life: India, 1940s–1970s’
- Talat Ahmed – ‘Becoming an Indian citizen through ‘Bollywood’: the films of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas’
- Vazira Zamindar – ‘Citizenship and national boundries in postcolonial South Asia’
- Questions / Discussion
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Session II – Violence and the everyday state
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Chair: Francis Robinson (RHUL)
- William Gould – ‘Policing, ‘punishment and quotidian violence in late colonial and early independent north India’
- Taylor Sherman – ‘Retaliation, not rehabilitation: everyday violence in the aftermath of the Police Action in Hyderabad, 1947-51‘
- Questions / Discussion
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Session III – Development and resettlement
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Chair: Markus Daechel (RHUL)
- Ilyas Chattha – Differential treatment: Kashmiri refugees’ experiences of rehabilitation and Punjab-centre relations, 1947-1961
- Tommaso Bobbio – ‘Countrymen within the city’: the construction of citizenship and the rhetoric of ‘slum development’ in twentieth-century Ahmedabad
- Questions / Discussion
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Session IV: Gender, childhood and the nation
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Chair: Eleanor Newbigin (Cambridge)
- Ravinder Kaur ‘Bodies of partition: gendered subjects, ‘social’ work and the limits of moral citizenship’
- Uditi Sen – Rehabilitation’s residue: recasting refugee women as ‘permanent liabilities’
- Sarah Ansari – Children, citizenship and the state in 1950s Pakistan
- Questions / Discussion
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Project website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/subjectstocitizens/index.html
