| Description |
1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Contents |
Domicile and diaspora: an introduction -- At home in British India: Imperial domesticity and national identity -- Home, community and nation: domesticating identity and embodying modernity -- Colonization and settlement: Anglo-Indian homelands -- Independence and decolonization: Anglo-Indian Resettlement in Britain -- Mixed descent, migration and multiculturalism: Anglo-Indians in Australia since 1947 -- At home in independent India: post-Imperial domesticity and national identity -- Domicile and diaspora: conclusions |
| Summary |
Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian Independence in 1947. Theoretically informed and substantively grounded, the book draws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research. Key themes include: imaginative geographies of Britain as fatherland and India as motherland before Independence; the establishment of Anglo-Indian homelands; Anglo-Indian migration under the British Nationality Act of 1948 and the White Australia Policy; and the spatial politics of home fo |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anglo-Indians -- Ethnic identity
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Anglo-Indians -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century
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Anglo-Indians -- Race identity
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Women, Anglo-Indian -- History -- 20th century
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Women, Anglo-Indian -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Women, Anglo-Indian.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781405141307 |
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1405141301 |
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