This study highlights some emerging issues in the study of displaced persons in
India, like the agency and voices of people who flee across an international
border, the identities they forge for themselves, their relations with the hosts
and their interactions with the state and non-governmental organizations. Three
case studies are examined here: (a). aPartition refugeesa, from East Pakistan to
West Bengal, (b). Tamil refugees, from Sri Lanka to India and (c). Bangladesh
Liberation War refugees from East Pakistan to West Bengal. The reader will find
that each case is in itself highly complex. The treatment meted out to the
displaced people in India has not been