ABSTRACT
Chapter 4: Perceived as imagined bloodsuckers in the Vietnamese public opinion and as actual capitalists in administrative policies (in the Party’s documents and reports), as discussed in previous chapters, the Indian population must have been made invisible in the socialist figure of Vietnam and its socialist realistic writing. This chapter examines attempts of socialist nation-makers (writers and administrators) at transforming images of the Indian population into the subjects of the proletarianization of minds and bodies of the socialist revolution. The proletarianization would cease the visibility of the Indian population both physically and ideologically: many Indians actually left northern Vietnam and those who remained became members of the proletariat. The chapter suggests that the colonial category of the Indian population—the greedy bloodsucking metaphor associated with migrants, foreigners, colonial capitalists, and feudalists—still forms an actual and imagined target of the socialist nation-building.
