“Purusharthi” in India: the role of Pakistani refugees in the political life in Delhi

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Keywords: the Partition of India; Delhi; Punjab; urbanization; Hindu nationalism

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Spektor I.B. “Purusharthi” in India: the role of Pakistani refugees in the political life in Delhi. // Lomonosov Oriental Studies Journal. 2019. N 2, p.119–128

Spektor I.B. (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Abstract

The article examines the adaptation of Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan in Delhi after the Partition of India in 1947. It considers housing and rehabilitation, the refugees’ role in the city’s growth, and their political preferences in the late 1940s and 1950s.