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The South Asian diaspora : transnational networks and changing identities / edited by Rajesh Rai and Peter Reeves.

Contributor(s): Rai, Rajesh | Reeves, Peter, 1935-.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 11. Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: xiii, 215 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780415456913 (hardback : alk. paper); 0415456916 (hardback : alk. paper); 9780203892350 (ebook); 0203892356 (ebook); 9780415596169.Subject(s): South Asians -- Foreign countries | South Asians -- Ethnic identity | South Asian diaspora | South Asia -- Emigration and immigrationDDC classification: 305.8914 Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
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.
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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.

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