Global Indian Diasporas: Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2008

Global Indian Diasporas

Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory

Edited by: Gijsbert Oonk

In the series IIAS Publications

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048501069

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About this book

A cross-disciplinary overview of the new historical and anthropological research on South Asian migrants worldwide

Author / Editor information

Gijsbert Oonk is associate professor of non-Western history in the History Department at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
1. Global Indian Diasporas Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory Gijsbert Oonk Open Access Download PDF	9
PART 1 CRITICAL HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
2. Multanis and Shikarpuris Indian Diasporas in Historical Perspective Scott Levi Open Access Download PDF	31
3. ‘We Lost our Gift of Expression’ Loss of the Mother Tongue among South Asians in East Africa, 1880-2000 Gijsbert Oonk Open Access Download PDF	67
4. Contextualising Diasporic Identity Implications of Time and Space on Telugu Immigrants Chandrashekhar Bhat and T.L.S. Bhaskar Open Access Download PDF	89
5. Separated by the Partition? Muslims of British Indian Descent in Mauritius and Suriname Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff Open Access Download PDF	119
6. A Chance Diaspora British Gujarati Hindus John Mattausch Open Access Download PDF	149
PART 2 CRITICAL SOCIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
7. Contested Family Relations and Government Policy Links between Patel Migrants in Britain and India Mario Rutten and Pravin J. Patel Open Access Download PDF	167
8. Diaspora Revisited Second-Generation Nizari Ismaili Muslims of Gujarati Ancestry Anjoom Amir Mukadam and Sharmina Mawani Open Access Download PDF	195
9. Bollywood and the Indian diaspora Reception of Indian cinema among Hindustani youth in the Netherlands Sanderien Verstappen and Mario Rutten Open Access Download PDF	211
10. Contested Equality Social Relations between Indian and Surinamese Hindus in Amsterdam Brit Lynnebakke Open Access Download PDF	235
11. Afterword Stray Thoughts of an Historian on ‘Indian’ or ‘South Asian’ ‘Diaspora(s)’ Claude Markovits Open Access Download PDF	263
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	275
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	291

Languages: English, English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296

eBook

Published: November 22, 2007
ISBN: 9789048501069