Decolonization and Genocide: Re-Examining Indian Partition, 1946–1947

IF 0.4 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Sayantan Jana
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Abstract:This article proposes that the Indian Partition of 1947 could be classified as a form of “decolonizing genocide.” It draws upon the original Lemkinian criteria for genocide in order to re-examine aspects of Partition violence. The author thus discusses the need to expand the existing terminology and frameworks that scholars have previously used to analyze the Partition; examines the different state and non-state groups involved, and how the climate of decolonization enabled different state and non-state groups to mobilize in various forms and degrees; and studies the victim groups, particularly, women and their experiences of sexual violence. From the case of Indian Partition, this article argues that the conditions present during decolonization help to perpetuate a specific kind of organized violence, carried out by state, quasi-state, and non-state agents, which is genocidal in both its logic and nature. Thus, re-examining Indian Partition as decolonizing genocide allows us to move beyond Eurocentric and state-oriented definitions of genocide in order to create a more effective approach towards understanding mass violence in decolonizing and postcolonial societies.
非殖民化和种族灭绝:重新审视印度分治,1946-1947
摘要:本文提出1947年印度分治可以被归类为一种“非殖民化种族灭绝”。它借鉴了最初的莱姆基尼种族灭绝标准,以便重新审查分治暴力的各个方面。因此,作者讨论了扩展学者们先前用于分析分区的现有术语和框架的必要性;考察所涉及的不同国家和非国家团体,以及非殖民化的气候如何使不同的国家和非国家团体以各种形式和程度进行动员;研究受害者群体,特别是妇女和她们的性暴力经历。从印度分治的案例来看,本文认为,非殖民化期间存在的条件有助于延续一种特定的有组织暴力,由国家、准国家和非国家代理人实施,这在逻辑和本质上都是种族灭绝。因此,将印度分治作为非殖民化的种族灭绝重新审视,使我们能够超越以欧洲为中心和以国家为导向的种族灭绝定义,从而创造一种更有效的方法来理解非殖民化和后殖民社会中的大规模暴力。
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0.40
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33.30%
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63
期刊介绍: The major forum for scholarship on the Holocaust and other genocides, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is an international journal featuring research articles, interpretive essays, and book reviews in the social sciences and humanities. It is the principal publication to address the issue of how insights into the Holocaust apply to other genocides. Articles compel readers to confront many aspects of human behavior, to contemplate major moral issues, to consider the role of science and technology in human affairs, and to reconsider significant political and social factors.
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