The South Asian diaspora
Subtitle: transnational networks and changing identities
By: edited by Rajesh Rai & Peter Reeves.
Contributors: Rai, Rajesh.; Reeves, Peter, 1935-
Series: Routledge contemporary South Asia series; Routledge contemporary south asia series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415456913; 9780203892350
Subjects: South Asians -- Foreign countries; South Asians -- Ethnic identity; South Asian diaspora; South Asia -- Emigration and immigration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethnicity, locality and circulation in two diasporic merchant networks from South Asia / Claude Markovits; title: The social world of Gujarati merchants and their Indian Ocean networks in the seventeenth century / Murari Kumar Jha; title: Subaltern networks in a colonial diaspora : a study of Indian migrants and Mauritius / Marina Carter; title: An entrepreneurial diaspora? Transnational space and India's international economic expansion / Peter Reeves; title: Indians in Southeast Asia : migrant labour, knowledge workers and the new India / Amarjit Kaur; title: Indo-Fijians : roots and routes / Brij V. Lal; title: From Bharat to Sri Ram Desh : the emigration of Indian indentured labourers to Suriname / Chan E.S. Choenni; title: Sociological reflections on the diasporic Bangladeshis in Singapore and USA / Habibul Haque Khondker; title: The attrition and survival of minor South Asian languages in Singapore / Rajesh Rai; title: Forging kinship with food : the experience of South Indians in Malaysia / Theresa W. Devasahayam; title: Bhai Maharaj Singh and the making of a "model minority" : Sikhs in Singapore / Tan Li Jen; title: "The familiar temporariness" : Naipaul, diaspora and the literary imagination : a personal narrative / Vijay Mishra.