Leaving India
Subtitle: my family's journey from villages to five continents
By: Minal Hajratwala.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780618251292
Subjects: Hajratwala, Minal; Hajratwala, Minal -- Family; Gujarati Americans -- Biography; Children of immigrants -- United States -- Biography; Immigrants -- United States -- Biography; Gujaratis (Indic people) -- Biography; Immigrants -- Biography; East Indians -- Migrations -- Case studies; Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies; India -- Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects
Genres: Biography.; Case studies.
Description: Beginning with her great-grandfather's original flight from British-occupied India to Fiji, the author follows her ancestors across the twentieth century to explain how they came to be spread across five continents and nine countries, delving into the relationship between personal choice and the great historical forces that helped shape her family's experiences, and bringing to light the story of the Indian diaspora.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.