Uttara Shahani
Biographic Data
| ID | 1249836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uttara Shahani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uttara |
| FAMILY NAME | Shahani |
| SIGNATURE | SHAHANI U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8428-5028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bonded citizenship
Historians of the Indian Partition focus on the permit systems the governments of India and Pakistan put in place to stem refugee entry and prevent the return of evacuees. However, the prevention of exit became, alongside non-entrée and the prevention of return, part of an official strategy of immobility in South Asia directed at marginalized castes. At Partition, Pakistan saw the labour of 'non-Muslim' marginalized castes as essential to its nat…
Offshoring Refugees
British proposals to forcibly deport asylum seekers to Rwanda have raised fierce opposition from across the political spectrum in the UK and internationally. These proposals differ from official practices of deportation as they have developed in liberal democracies since the 1970s. There are certainly some international parallels, such as Australia's 'Pacific Solution' of 'offshoring' asylum, which is often cited as an inspiration. Yet a much cle…
Language Without a Land
Scholars have paid significant attention to the linguistic reorganisation of states in India but there is less consideration of how the demands of linguistic movements to redraw the map of India is linked to the history of partition across the colonial-postcolonial divide as well as of the new minorities that linguistic states created. This article draws attention at first to the unsuccessful pre-partition resistance of Sindhi Hindus to the separ…
Offshoring Refugees
British proposals to forcibly deport asylum seekers to Rwanda have raised fierce opposition from across the political spectrum in the UK and internationally. These proposals differ from official practices of deportation as they have developed in liberal democracies since the 1970s. There are certainly some international parallels, such as Australia's 'Pacific Solution' of 'offshoring' asylum, which is often cited as an inspiration. Yet a much cle…
Language Without a Land
Scholars have paid significant attention to the linguistic reorganisation of states in India but there is less consideration of how the demands of linguistic movements to redraw the map of India is linked to the history of partition across the colonial-postcolonial divide as well as of the new minorities that linguistic states created. This article draws attention at first to the unsuccessful pre-partition resistance of Sindhi Hindus to the separ…
Language Without a Land
Scholars have paid significant attention to the linguistic reorganisation of states in India but there is less consideration of how the demands of linguistic movements to redraw the map of India is linked to the history of partition across the colonial-postcolonial divide as well as of the new minorities that linguistic states created. This article draws attention at first to the unsuccessful pre-partition resistance of Sindhi Hindus to the separ…
Offshoring Refugees
British proposals to forcibly deport asylum seekers to Rwanda have raised fierce opposition from across the political spectrum in the UK and internationally. These proposals differ from official practices of deportation as they have developed in liberal democracies since the 1970s. There are certainly some international parallels, such as Australia's 'Pacific Solution' of 'offshoring' asylum, which is often cited as an inspiration. Yet a much cle…
Bonded citizenship
Historians of the Indian Partition focus on the permit systems the governments of India and Pakistan put in place to stem refugee entry and prevent the return of evacuees. However, the prevention of exit became, alongside non-entrée and the prevention of return, part of an official strategy of immobility in South Asia directed at marginalized castes. At Partition, Pakistan saw the labour of 'non-Muslim' marginalized castes as essential to its nat…
Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Partition (number theory (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Refugee (2 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works)