| Description |
1 online resource (449 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: concepts and questions; Part I Mobile South Asians in the early modern world; 1 The world of the Indian Ocean; 2 The market for mobile labour in early modern North India; 3 Scribal migrations in early modern India; 4 Mobile artisans; 5 Hawala and hundi: vehicles for the long-distance transmission of value; Part II Diaspora and empire; 6 South Asian business in the Empire and beyond c. 1800-1950 |
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7 Indian indenture: experiment and experience8 Wrecking homes, making families: women's recruitment and indentured labour migration from India; 9 The age of the 'lascar': South Asian seafarers in the times of imperial steam shipping; 10 South Asians in Britain up to the mid-nineteenth century; 11 Warriors, workers, traders and peasants: the Nepali/Gorkhali diaspora since the nineteenth century; Part III Diaspora and nation; 12 Seeking empire, finding nation: Gandhi and Indianness in South Africa; 13 South Asian migration to the United States: Diasporic and national formations |
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Part IV Diaspora, nation states and the neighbourhood14 From imperial subjects to national citizens: South Asians and the international migration regime since 1947; 15 The production of illegality in migration and diaspora: state policies and human smuggling from Pakistan; 16 Out of India: Deobandi Islam, radicalism and the globalisation of 'South Asian Islam'; 17 Nationalising a diaspora: the Tibetan government-in-exile in India; 18 Sri Lanka's diasporas; Part V Diaspora, globalisation and culture; 19 Brain drain, exchange and gain: 'hi-skill' migrants and the developed economies |
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20 Transnationalism and the transformation of 'home' by 'abroad' in Sylhet, Bangladesh21 Indians abroad: mixing it up; 22 Bengalis in Britain: migration, state controls and settlement; 23 The Pakistani diaspora: USA and UK; 24 Hinduism in the diaspora; 25 Ritual, religion and aesthetics in the Pakistani and South Asian diaspora; 26 Europe's Muslim passions; 27 Diasporic cities in Britian: Bradford, Manchester, Leicester, London; 28 Dis/locating diaspora: South Asian youth cultures in Britain; 29 Dress and the South Asian diaspora |
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30 Marriages of convenience and capitulation: South Asian marriage, family and intimacy in the diaspora31 Literature of the South Asian diaspora; 32 Indian food in the USA: adapting to culinary eclecticism; 33 Bollywood's empire: Indian cinema and the diaspora; Index |
| Summary |
South Asia's diaspora is among the world's largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. It is estimated that over 25 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots in other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. There are 3 million South Asians in the UK and approximately the same number resides in North America. South Asians are an extremely significant presence in Southeast Asia and Africa, and increasingly visible in the Middle East. This inter-disciplinary handbook on the South Asian diaspora brings |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Washbrook, David
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| ISBN |
9781136018244 |
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1136018247 |
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