Indians in Singapore, 1819-1945
Subtitle: Diaspora in the Colonial Port-City
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780198099291
Subjects: East indians; Singapore, history
Description: This title is a comprehensive study of the Indian diaspora in colonial Singapore. The book provides a meticulous historical account of the formation of the diaspora in the colonial port-city, and its socio-political, religious and cultural development from the advent of British colonial rule to the end of the Japanese occupation.