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Muhajirs as a diaspora in Intizar Husain's the sea lies ahead and Kamila Shamsie's Kartography / Kumar, Priya   Journal Article
Kumar, Priya Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This essay argues that diaspora is a useful analytical category for understanding certain migrant populations engendered by Partition, but not all Partition migrants can be designated as diasporas. Through a close reading of two novels—Intizar Husain's The Sea Lies Ahead (translated from the Urdu original Aage Samandar Hai by Rakhshanda Jalil) and Kamila Shamsie's Kartography—I show how Urdu-speaking migrants from India's Muslim minority provinces who migrated to the urban centres of Sindh have invented and preserved themselves as a diaspora in post-Partition Pakistan. Both novels enable us to see how Muhajirs have become a community based on a shared ideology of displacement that is kept alive in the group's memory.
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Sindh, 1947 and beyond / Kothari, Rita; Kumar, Priya   Journal Article
Kothari, Rita Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract When we came to the land of Hindustan, we were sent to a refugee camp near Ahmednagar in a special train. We were given free food, clothes, soap, for some time. Later on, an order was issued that the camp had to be shut down. We had to go to Vithalwadi near Kalyan. We left once again. Once again, we had free clothes, free electricity for almost a year. In the meanwhile proud Sindhis who felt that the free facilities would not last forever and in any case, they could not live off them any more, began looking for employment. I was one of them.
Key Words India  Pakistan  Sindh  1947 
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