In-Situ Displacement

Institutional Practices and the Making of the Hindu Other

Bibliographic Data

ID4301033
AuthorsFeldman (0000-0002-7137-2448, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume34
Issue2
Pages271-286
Publication date2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/johs.12328
OpenAlexW3165359675
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited54

This paper introduces the concept of in-situ displacement-displacement without mobility-as an analytic for understanding the place of Hindus in Muslim majority East Bengal, East Pakistan, and Bangladesh, a national formation that is best defined as one of a changing identification with Pakistan and India, and, subsequently, as a sovereign country in South Asia. Elaborating the contributions of Corrigan and Sayer on state formation and law, the paper highlights the importance of the judiciary as constitutive of the meanings that attend to belonging in the body politic. Evidence for this argument comes from court cases in the Dacca Law Review

Argument (complex analysis · BENGAL · Body politic · Development economics · Displacement (psychology · Economics · Geography · Hinduism · Political science · Sociology · South asia · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Theology · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development · Gender Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts

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