Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora

Herausgeber: Chatterji, Joya; Washbrook, David

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Produktbeschreibung

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. This inter-disciplinary handbook on the South Asian diaspora brings together contributions by leading scholars and rising stars on different aspects of its history, anthropology and geography, as well as its contemporary political and socio-cultural implications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1057g
• ISBN-13: 9780415480109
• ISBN-10: 0415480108
• Artikelnr.: 41395849

Autorenporträt

Joya Chatterji is Reader in Modern South Asian History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Trinity College. Her publications include Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition 1932-1947 (1995), The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-67 (2007) and co-author of The Bengal Diaspora (forthcoming 2013, Routledge). She is also the editor of the journal Modern Asian Studies. David Washbrook is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK, and he has previously taught at Warwick, Harvard and Oxford Universities and the University of Pennsylvania. His major interests lie in the societies and cultures of southern India on which he has published extensively.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Mobile South Asians in the early modern world 1. The
world of the Indian Ocean 2. The market for military 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 2: Diaspora and empire 6. South Asian business in Empire and beyond 7.
Indenture: Experiment and Experience 8. 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 3: 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 formation
Part 4: Diaspora, nation states and the neighbourhood 14. 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 trafficking from Pakistan 16. Out of
India: Deobandi Islam, radicalism and the globalization of 'South Asian
Islam' 17. Nationalising a diaspora: The Tibetan government-in-exile in
India 18. Sri Lanka's diasporas Part 5: Diaspora, globalisation and culture
19. Brain Drain, exchange and gain: 'Hi-skill' migrants and the developed
economies 20. Transnationalism and the tranformation of 'home' by 'abroad'
in Sylhet, Bagladesh 21. Indians abroad: Mixing it up 22. Bengalis in
Britain: Migration, state controls and settlement 23. The Pakistani
Diaspora: US 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 30. Marriages of convenience and
capitulation: South Asian marriage, family and intimacy in the Diaspora 31.
Literatures of the South Asian Diaspora 32. Indian food in the USA:
Adapting to culinary eclecticism 33. Bollywood's Empire: Indian Cinema and
Diaspora