IGNORANCE, FORGETTING, AND FAMILY NOSTALGIA: Partition, the Nation State, and Refugees in Delhi

TitleIGNORANCE, FORGETTING, AND FAMILY NOSTALGIA: Partition, the Nation State, and Refugees in Delhi
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2000
AuthorsDhooleka Sarhadi Raj
JournalSocial Analysis
Volume44
Issue2
Pagination30-55
ISSN0155977X
Abstract

The article examines the experiences of three generations of refugee families in New Delhi, India and explores their role by outlining an analytical need to differentiate between ignorance and forgetting. It discusses how the intergenerational has depicted tension between forgetting and ignorance. The author argues that cultural identity depends on the structures of not knowing and the loss of cultural knowledge is not a loss of cultural identity.

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Short TitleIGNORANCE, FORGETTING, AND FAMILY NOSTALGIA