The South Asian diaspora : transnational networks and changing identities /
edited by Rajesh Rai and Peter Reeves.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- xiii, 215 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 11 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ethnicity, locality and circulation in two diasporic merchant networks from South Asia / Claude Markovits -- The social world of Gujarati merchants and their Indian Ocean networks in the seventeenth century / Murari Kumar Jha -- Subaltern networks in a colonial diaspora : a study of Indian migrants and Mauritius / Marina Carter -- An entrepreneurial diaspora? Transnational space and India's international economic expansion / Peter Reeves -- Indians in Southeast Asia : migrant labour, knowledge workers and the new India / Amarjit Kaur -- Indo-Fijians : roots and routes / Brij V. Lal -- From Bharat to Sri Ram Desh : the emigration of Indian indentured labourers to Suriname / Chan E.S. Choenni -- Sociological reflections on the diasporic Bangladeshis in Singapore and USA / Habibul Haque Khondker -- The attrition and survival of minor South Asian languages in Singapore / Rajesh Rai -- Forging kinship with food : the experience of South Indians in Malaysia / Theresa W. Devasahayam -- Bhai Maharaj Singh and the making of a 'model minority' : Sikhs in Singapore / Tan Li Jen -- 'The familiar temporariness' : Naipaul, diaspora and the literary imagination : a personal narrative / Vijay Mishra.
9780415456913 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415456916 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780203892350 (ebook) 0203892356 (ebook) 9780415596169
2008007131
South Asians--Foreign countries.
South Asians--Ethnic identity.
South Asian diaspora.
South Asia--Emigration and immigration.
DS339.4 / .S667 2009
305.8914 / S72628
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ethnicity, locality and circulation in two diasporic merchant networks from South Asia / Claude Markovits -- The social world of Gujarati merchants and their Indian Ocean networks in the seventeenth century / Murari Kumar Jha -- Subaltern networks in a colonial diaspora : a study of Indian migrants and Mauritius / Marina Carter -- An entrepreneurial diaspora? Transnational space and India's international economic expansion / Peter Reeves -- Indians in Southeast Asia : migrant labour, knowledge workers and the new India / Amarjit Kaur -- Indo-Fijians : roots and routes / Brij V. Lal -- From Bharat to Sri Ram Desh : the emigration of Indian indentured labourers to Suriname / Chan E.S. Choenni -- Sociological reflections on the diasporic Bangladeshis in Singapore and USA / Habibul Haque Khondker -- The attrition and survival of minor South Asian languages in Singapore / Rajesh Rai -- Forging kinship with food : the experience of South Indians in Malaysia / Theresa W. Devasahayam -- Bhai Maharaj Singh and the making of a 'model minority' : Sikhs in Singapore / Tan Li Jen -- 'The familiar temporariness' : Naipaul, diaspora and the literary imagination : a personal narrative / Vijay Mishra.
9780415456913 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415456916 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780203892350 (ebook) 0203892356 (ebook) 9780415596169
2008007131
South Asians--Foreign countries.
South Asians--Ethnic identity.
South Asian diaspora.
South Asia--Emigration and immigration.
DS339.4 / .S667 2009
305.8914 / S72628