Rajesh Rai

Indians in Singapore, 1819-1945

Diaspora in the Colonial Port City

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Produktbeschreibung

Indians in Singapore, 1819 -1945 is the first comprehensive study of the Indian diaspora in colonial Singapore. The book provides a meticulous historical account of the formation of the diaspora in the colonial port-city, and its socio-political, religious and cultural development from the advent of British colonial rule to the end of the Japanese occupation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 154mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780198099291
• ISBN-10: 0198099290
• Artikelnr.: 47864801

Autorenporträt

Rajesh Rai is Assistant Professor at the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Pioneers at the Frontier - 1819-1867
1: Merchants, minions and the military
2: In the poly-ethnic world of the port city
Part Two: Diasporic Transformations in the Age of Mass Migration - 1867-1941
3: The diaspora reconstituted
4: Repression, reform, rebellion
5: Diasporic formations in the inter-war years
Part Three: The Japanese Occupation and the Indian National Army
6: Imperatives of the new order
7: The price of freedom
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author
Index