The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the
displacement of sixteen million more. It continues to haunt contemporary life in
India-not only for discourse that debates the place of religion in India, but
also for the historical interpretation of justice and minority belongings, and
for the tension-ridden struggle over the production of secular, national culture
in the subcontinent.Violent Belongingsis about the relation between culture in
the subcontinent world, exploring contemporary ethnic and gendered violence, and
the questions about belonging that trouble nations and nationalisms today.
Kavita Daiya examines South Asian ethnic violence and related mass migration in
and after 1947