ABSTRACT

This paper explores Hindu East Bengali/Pakistani/Bangladeshi belonging as a contingent relation of inclusion that is constitutive of securing majoritarian rule. I argue that despite their formal citizenship status, Hindus are produced as undeserving others, as proxy citizens, a status that casts them as having questionable loyalty to their country of birth. I explore this production as a relation of in-situ displacement, a characterization that reveals their relation to place that does not depend on physical mobility. I offer an historical analysis that highlights the country’s relation to changing national and transnational relations of a dependent political economy as a colony, under military rule, and as a democratic formation, where Bangladesh is characterized by ongoing, if uneven, tensions between majoritarianism and more inclusive forms of belonging.

摘要

本文探讨了印度教东孟加拉语/巴基斯坦/孟加拉国的归属，作为一种包容的偶然关系，它是确保多数主义统治的组成部分。我认为，尽管印度教徒具有正式的公民身份，但他们被生产为不值得的其他人，作为代理公民，这种身份使他们对自己的出生国的忠诚度值得怀疑。我将这种生产作为原地置换的关系进行探索，这一特征揭示了它们与不依赖于物理流动性的地方的关系。我提供了一个历史分析，强调该国与不断变化的国家和跨国关系的关系 依赖政治经济作为一个殖民地，处于军事统治下，作为一个民主形式，孟加拉国的特点是持续的，如果不平衡，