By elaborating on the tangibility of colonial history and imperial practices, Samaddar explains how the nature of colonial state, decolonisation and partition has set the ground for the process and response to forced migration in post-colonial states of South Asia. Causative analysis of forced migration in South Asia (among other factors such as natural disasters, climate change, development induced) significantly showcases the negative impacts of post-colonial state building that attempts to carve homogenous populations by relegating different cultural/ethnic/religious minorities to the margins of the state forcing them to migrate (Chowdhory, 2018). The centrality of refugee camps as spatial sites that shelter the undesirable is even more pertinent in the context of South Asia, where the shared post-colonial history of the countries has conjured a distinct socio-cultural milieu in which the forced migration needs to be analysed.