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Subject(s)

• Nation-building—South Asia [Browse]
• Nationalism—South Asia [Browse]
• War crimes—South Asia [Browse]
• Sex role—Political aspects—South Asia [Browse]
• India-Pakistan Conflict, 1971 [Browse]
• India—History—Partition, 1947 [Browse]
• Bangladesh—History—Revolution, 1971 [Browse]

Series

• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 29. [More in this series]
• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; v.29 [More in this series]

Summary note

This book gives a detailed political analysis of nationbuilding processes and how these are closely linked to statebuilding and to issues of war crime, gender and sexuality, and marginalization of minority groups. With a focus on the Indian subcontinent, the author demonstrates how the state itself is involved in the construction of a gendered identity, and how control of women and their sexuality is central to the nationbuilding project. She applies a critical feminist approach to two major conflicts in the Indian subcontinent - the Partition of India in 1947 and the Liberati

Notes

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-240) and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• Front Cover; Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia; Copyright Page; Contents; Bibliography; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The politics of nationalism and nationbuilding; 2 1947: From partition to creation; 3 1971: Politics of silence, or refusal to remember?; 4 Gendered nationbuilding; 5 Frozen in time? War crimes, justice and political forgiveness; 6 Partnership with transnational networks for gender-sensitive justice mechanism; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Interview with Respondent M; Appendix 2: Interview with Dr Geoffrey Davis
• Appendix 3: The International Crimes (Tribunals) ACT, 1973Glossary; Notes; Index

ISBN

• 1-136-95938-6
• 1-283-51984-4
• 9786613832290
• 0-203-85001-7
• 1-136-95939-4

OCLC

• 804661486
• 804038586

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203850015

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