| Description |
256 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
South Asia seminar series |
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South Asia seminar series.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination / Peter van der Veer -- 1. A Sikh Diaspora? Contested Identities and Constructed Realities / Verne A. Dusenbery -- 2. Bhakti and Postcolonial Politics: Hindu Missions to Fiji / John D. Kelly -- 3. Projecting Identities: Empire and Indentured Labor Migration from India to Trinidad and British Guiana, 1836-1885 / Madhavi Kale -- 4. Homeland, Motherland: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Ideologies of Place among Muslims in Trinidad / Aisha Khan -- 5. Hindus in Trinidad and Britain: Ethnic Religion, Reification, and the Politics of Public Space / Steven Vertovec -- 6. New York City's Muslim World Day Parade / Susan Slyomovics -- 7. Indian Immigrants in Queens, New York City: Patterns of Spatial Concentration and Distribution, 1965-1990 / Madhulika S. Khandelwal -- 8. Gendering Diaspora: Space, Politics, and South Asian Masculinities in Britain / Sallie Westwood |
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9. New Cultural Forms and Transnational South Asian Women: Culture, Class, and Consumption among British Asian Women in the Diaspora / Parminder Bhachu |
| Notes |
Papers presented at the 47th Annual South Asia Seminar held at the University of Pennsylvania, 1991/1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references(pages 242-244) and index |
| Subject |
South Asians -- Foreign countries -- Congresses.
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South Asians -- Foreign countries.
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125541 -- Emigration and immigration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005907 -- Congresses.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
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South Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125541 -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005907
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South Asia -- Politics and government -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010114245
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South Asia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117020
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Veer, Peter van der.
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South Asia Seminar (47th : 1991 : University of Pennsylvania)
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| LC no. |
94028888 |
| ISBN |
0812215370 |
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0812232593 |
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