Beyond Partition Annual Conference 2022

Day 1 10th June

Panel 1: Non Partition Refugees in South Asia

9:30-11:30 am BST

Chair: Dr Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford)

Uditi Sen (University of Nottingham)

The Home that Never war: Decolonisation and Anglo Indian Migration to the Andaman Islands

Jayita Sarkar (University of Glasgow/University of Edinburgh)

Battlefields to Borderlands: Rohingyas and Decolonization, 1940s–1950s

Antara Datta (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Negotiating Precarity- Uyghur and Kazakh refugees in postcolonial South Asia

Ankit Kawade (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

Transnational Migration and the Idea of the Comparative Minority in Ambedkar’s Political Thought

Panel 2: Borders and Borderlanders

12:00-2:00 pm BST

Chair: Dr Haimanti Roy (University of Dayton, Ohio)

Shalini Punjabi (Independent scholar)

Shifting homes and identities: dislocations along India’s Western front

Nandini Rawat (Delhi University)

How to Build a Hindu: A Case Study of Pahari Migrants in Delhi

Dipti Tamang (Cornell University)

Citizenship, Longing and Belonging amongst the Indian Nepali/Gorkhas of Darjeeling Himalayas.

Panel 3: South Asia Beyond Borders

3:00-5:00 pm BST

Chair: Dr Sana Aiyar (MIT)

Jinal Parekh (Independent Scholar)

A small minority caught by the circumstances of history': Post-Imperial Britain and the Kenyan Asian Conundrum

Mira Burmeister-Rudolph (University of Amsterdam)

Ambiguous citizenship and the politics of informal representation: Indian charity organizations’ mediation between low-wage labour migrants and migrant origin states in the Gulf countries

Shenila Khoja-Moolji (Bowdoin College)

Culinary Placemaking: Diasporic Indian Muslim women’s cookbooks and the sensory memory of food

Kalathmika Natarajan (University of Exeter)

Caste, Race and Diplomacy: Mediating Indian Immigrants in Postwar Britain

Day 2 11th June 2022

Panel 4: NRC, CAA and redefining citizenship in the North East

9:30-11:30 am BST

Chair: Dr Sahana Ghosh (NUS)

Anindita Chakrabarty (Mahindra University)

Migration Studies and the Convention of a ‘Partition Framework’: Questioning Historicising

Salah Punathil (University of Hyderabad)

National Borders among Families: Precarious Citizenship and Removal in India

Debasreeta Deb (University of Otago)

Uprooted and Erased: Unearthing the Perils of Citizenship of the Bengalis in Assam’s National Register of Citizens

Suraj Gogoi (Independent scholar)

Family as the Political: Emerging Citizenship Regimes in India

Panel 5: Cities, localities and migrant encounters

12:00-2:00 pm BST

Chair: Dr Anish Vanaik (Purdue University)

Asaf Ali Lone (CPR, New Delhi)

Repartitioning identities and urban spaces: (Un)Bordering Muslim Identity in India

Natasha Ansari (MIT)

Patriarchy Under Stress: Women and Urban Migration

Zoha Waseem (Warwick)

“It’s like crossing a border everyday”: Police-migrant encounters in a postcolonial city

Rohail Salman (George Washington University)

Land, Property, and Belonging: State practices and Evacuee Property management in Pakistan, 1947-1958

Panel 6: Postcolonial partitions and borders

3:00-5:00 BST

Chair: Dr Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway)

Ahona Panda (Claremont Mckenna College)

The Politics of Language: Popular Sovereignty and the Language Movement in East Pakistan

Ilyas Chattha (LUMS)

Citizen Internees: Bengali Servicemen in Pakistan, 1971-1974

Chakraverti Mahajan (Queen’s University, Belfast/University of Delhi)

Territorial Marginality, Multiple Displacements and Militarized Lives: Notes from the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir

Danny Shanahan (University of Cambridge)

Internal borderlands and the manufacture of consent in contemporary fiction about Kashmir

The Beyond Partition Working Group comprises the following members: Dr Haimanti Roy (University of Dayton, Ohio), Dr Uditi Sen (Nottingham University), Dr Jayita Sarkar (University of Glasgow), Dr Kalathmika Natarajan (Exeter), Dr Ketaki Pant (University of Southern California), Dr Sahana Ghosh (National University of Singapore) and Dr Antara Datta (Royal Holloway, University of London).