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In‐Situ Displacement: Institutional Practices and the Making of the Hindu Other
Author(s) -
Feldman Shelley
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12328
Subject(s) - hinduism , bengal , body politic , sovereignty , argument (complex analysis) , displacement (psychology) , political science , south asia , state (computer science) , trace (psycholinguistics) , sociology , development economics , gender studies , law , geography , economics , anthropology , psychology , theology , philosophy , mathematics , archaeology , algorithm , bay , politics , psychotherapist , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry
Abstract 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.