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Return of the native

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Critical Events An Anthropological Perspective On Contemporary India

No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. Lawrence Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxv. 367 pp.

No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

The Heart Grown Bitter: A Chronicle of Cypriot War Refugees

Anthropology and the colonial encounter

This article addresses two questions: first, how do communities facing protracted displacement deal with the experience of migration and place-making? Second, how do notions of home mediate this relationship? I approach these questions by taking the case of Kashmiri Pandits, the upper caste Hindu minority of the Kashmir valley, who were displaced due to the outbreak of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989–90 and a significant section of whom were located in displaced persons’ camps during 1990–2011. The article draws upon discussions with Pandits who contrast nostalgia for life in Kashmir with experiences of re-establishing social and political relationships after displacement. Place and migration here are both treated as contexts and products of social activity that involve considerations of objects, physical environment and communal relationships. The article will argue that discussions of place and home are marked by a tension between desires for reclaiming home and security, and the condition of unce...

Dealing with dislocation: Migration, place and home among displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir

Dealing with dislocation

This article explores situations in which forced migrants revisit places and homes they had fled from, drawing on research carried out among Kashmiri Hindus, better known as Pandits, who were displaced following the outbreak of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990 Due to the breakdown of law and order, selective attacks, and a climate of fear, most of the community had relocated from the Kashmir valley to the south in Jammu and to even cities such as New Delhi, constituting one of the most prominent groups of Internally Displaced Persons in the region While there is an interest in repatriation/resettlement in scholarship and policy, the experiences of the Pandits reveal the multiple meanings ‘return’ holds for the displaced This article will draw on the experiences of Pandit forced migrants in Jammu who have returned to visit Kashmir Their experiences will be situated with work on return migration, the Kashmir conflict, and the political location of the Pandits in the region The article argues that return migration is an inconclusive phenomenon that critically raises questions of home and uncertainty, and provides a way to understand how the displaced locate themselves in the world

Uncertain Journeys: Return migration, home, and uncertainty for a displaced Kashmiri community

In his seminal book on violence during the Sri Lankan civil war, the anthropologist E. Valentine Daniel writes about his experiences while teaching a course on violence in an American classroom. During a discussion on ethnic violence in South Asia, one of the students had remarked that violent events took place in South Asian countries due to the inherent violence of South Asian societies unlike the Modern West (1996, p. 7). For Valentine Daniel, the certainty of the student’s belief in an essentialized view of cultures was disturbing, compounded by the apparent ignorance of the history of war in Europe alone. This encounter also raises an important set of questions: How is a topic such as political violence to be taught in a university classroom in a way that pushes forward our thinking on violence and suffering and helps us avoid essentialized notions? What would a course on political violence have to offer to students who are otherwise exposed to a larger public discourse on and of violence in all forms? How is such a course to be taught in classrooms in countries such as India where violence can be observed in a range of forms and situations and where students and teachers are perhaps often implicated in violence? This article seeks to engage with such questions as I draw on my experiences in teaching a single semester course on political violence for a postgraduate programme in Sociology at the South Asian University (SAU). I shall first situate my experiences in relation to anthropological scholarship on violence and then describe the course and classroom setting. This is a course I developed and have taught over a period of 5 years. From these experiences, I shall draw on two sets of themes, the first of which relate to situations where students are themselves implicated in histories of violence, as heirs to violent legacies or direct witnesses. This will be followed by a second related theme which pertains to how teachers and students look at experiences of violence and suffering of others. The article will then end with a discussion of the contexts in which teaching topics such as violence take place.

Teaching Political Violence: Experiences from a South Asian Classroom:

Jammu and Kashmir has for long been an area of interest, following the end of British colonialism in South Asia and the birth of the new nation-states of India and Pakistan. The dispute over Jammu ...

Ankur Datta

Papers

Dealing with dislocation: Migration, place and home among displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir

Dealing with dislocation

Uncertain Journeys: Return migration, home, and uncertainty for a displaced Kashmiri community

Teaching Political Violence: Experiences from a South Asian Classroom:

Resisting occupation in Kashmir