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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2023):

REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT THROUGH A DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM: A STUDY OF PARTITION REFUGES IN INDIA

  • Jena Madhusmita
Submitted
November 4, 2023
Published
2023-11-04

Abstract

India’s experience as a host state began with the partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan and movement of people across the borders of the two newly independent states. The new Government of India was initially unprepared for the vast humanitarian crisis which it faced in the immediate aftermath of Independence. Nearly eight million displaced persons in India constituted five million from West Pakistan and 3.5 million from East Pakistan (Brahmananda 1958). In 1947, there were few models for refugee protection and settlement that India could examine and adopt. 

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