The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia

Tan, Tai Yong; Kudaisya, Gyanesh

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“…This is not surprising given that “While the ‘exchange in population’ had almost been even between the two parts of the Punjab, there existed a wide disparity in the land that became available for cultivation in East Punjab [Indian Punjab]. The Hindu and Sikh refugees had left behind forty‐three lakh acres of irrigated land, against which existed only thirteen lakh acres of irrigated land evacuated by the Muslims of East Punjab” (Kudaisya and Yong Tan, : 127). On the Eastern side, the amount left behind was considerably less, as a much smaller proportion left Bengal for Bangladesh.…”

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Population Exchange and its Impact on Literacy, Occupation and Gender – Evidence from the Partition of India

Bharadwaj

Khwaja²,

Mian

2014

International Migration

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How do large scale, involuntary migrations and population exchanges affect sending and receiving communities? We examine the case of the partition of India in which approximately 17 million people moved within four years, resulting in one of the largest and most rapid population exchanges in human history. We find large effects due to the migration on a district's educational, occupational, and gender composition. Due to higher education levels amongst migrants, districts with 10 per cent greater inflows saw their literacy rates increase by 3 percentage points, while a 10 per cent increase in outflows reduced literacy by 1.2 percentage points. Due to disparities in the amount of land vacated by migrants, Indian districts with 10 per cent greater inflows saw a decline of 11 per centin agricultural occupations. Districts that experienced high inflows and outflows also experienced changes in gender composition. While the partition, driven along religious lines, increased religious homogenization within communities, our results suggest that this was accompanied by increased educational and occupational differences within religious groups. We conclude that these compositional effects, in addition to an aggregate population impact, are probably features of involuntary migrations and population exchanges and, as in the case of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, can have important long‐term consequences.

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Population Exchange and its Impact on Literacy, Occupation and Gender – Evidence from the Partition of India

Bharadwaj

Khwaja²,

Mian

2014

International Migration

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“…. their higher levels of education and skills, their representation in the bureaucratic and political systems, and their assertions of cultural superiority, the Muhajirs could not assimilate themselves with the original inhabitants of Karachi (Kudaisya & Yong Tan, 2000).…”

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“…In BKM (2008) we provide evidence of "replacement" of outgoing migrants with incoming migrants that was facilitated by the government. The fact that the government was trying to place people in areas where there was land available (Kudaisya and Yong Tan, 2000) perhaps mitigates the selection issue to some extent. Moreover, the actual location of the boundary lines were kept a secret until after Independence (Kudaisya and Yong Tan, 2000).…”

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“…The fact that the government was trying to place people in areas where there was land available (Kudaisya and Yong Tan, 2000) perhaps mitigates the selection issue to some extent. Moreover, the actual location of the boundary lines were kept a secret until after Independence (Kudaisya and Yong Tan, 2000). Hence, there was a surprise element to the boundary line location, giving people less time to selectively migrate.…”

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“…General texts (Bose & Jalal 1998, Brass 1990, Sarkar 1993, Kudaisya & Yong Tan 2000, anecdotal accounts (Butalia 2000, Shahid et al 1993, urban sociological work (Bopegamage 1957, Qadeer 1957, and fiction (Ghosh 1988, Manto 1997 form the large body of such work. The earliest attempt at an analytical view of the partition is a work by C.N.…”

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The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia

Cited by 34 publications

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