Refugees and the State: Practices of Asylum and Care in India, 1947-2000

This book is a collection of eleven chronicles on the practices of asylum and refugee protection in India over the last fifty years. Written by specialists in the field of law, administration, history, feminist studies and political science, this volume is simultaneously a political, legal, institutional and ethical history concerning hospitality, care and protection. The book highlights the contradictions between these virtues and the manner in which state power is organised and exercised in post-colonial India. Fundamentally, it is a study on the link between care and power.