Daiya, Kavita

V115

Violent belongings partition, gender, and national culture in postcolonial India / Kavita Daiya. . — Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008..

xi, 260 p. ill. 24 cm.

Train to Pakistan 2007: decolonization, partition, and identity in the transnational public sphere -- Re-gendering the nation: masculinity, romance, and secular citizenship -- A crisis made flesh: women, honor, and national coupledom -- We were never refugees: migrants and citizens in the postcolonial state -- War and peace: Pakistan and ethnic citizenship in Bollywood cinema -- Provincializing the nation: state violence and transnational belongings in the diaspora.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
English literature--South Asian authors--History and criticism.
American literature--South Asian authors--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--India.
Group identity--South Asia.
Gender identity--South Asia.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--History--Influence.--Partition, 1947
South Asia--Ethnic relations.