期刊名称：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
电子版ISSN：0975-2935
出版年度：2019
卷号：11
期号：3
页码：1-12
DOI：10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.15
出版社：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
摘要：The linguistic setup of Punjab was affected in 1947 partition and mass displacement, that changed the waypeople engaged with their spoken languages as linguistic identities were increasingly seen in political andnational terms. It was mainly during the years of Punjabi Suba movement in the 1950s in India that waslater followed by Indian Punjab’s trifurcation in 1966, that identities were projected into two rigid andcontrasting categories as Hindi-Hindu and Punjabi-Sikh. Hindu migrants distanced from an ethnic-Punjabiidentity towards a projection of an identity as Hindus that was followed by a language shift from nativedialects to Hindi. The current generation of Hindu migrants in India, however, is interested in reviving anethnic-linguistic identity, an identity that is linked to partition migrants’ lands and language of origin andone that illustrates an ethnic renewal. Through an analysis of non-fictional testimonies and ethnographicdata, we demonstrate ethnic contexts of identity renewal among current generation Hindu migrants. Weargue that a movement from ‘ethnic amnesia’ to ethnic renewal is one instance of a projection of identitythat is currently revised to fulfil a collective identity void among partition affected families. The articlepresents a two-fold case study, one that engages with our respondent’s ethnic sentiments and second thatengages with ethnic and language activism in community spaces. This paper, thus, elaborates a case ofidentity formations among current-generation partition migrants in India.
关键词：language gap; project identity; cultural void; ethnic renewal; partition migrants.
