Abstract
Partitions and the exiles that result from them have played a large role in the
political landscape of new states in the post-colonial world, with South Asia taking
the lead.1
The effects were grave and lasting in many ways. Politically it was the
split of land and the coming into birth of two self-governing states, but
psychologically its repercussions were deep and intense. Its carriers were hit
hard in a socio-economic context as well. With the subcontinent partitioned, India
and Pakistan emerged shattered but free and sovereign.2
Its inhabitants changed
nationalities: many turned into migrants then refugees and finally citizens of new
countries. In the process much that was dear and original was lost to the ‘enemy
land’ or the ‘opposite side’.
Rabia Umar Ali. (2019) Reshaping Identities: Migration, Dislocation and the Trauma of Refugees in the Punjab, 1947, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 56, Issue 1.
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