Indian Diaspora : Trends and Issues/edited by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and K.
Laxmi Narayan. New Delhi, Serials, 2008, xii, 212 p., ISBN
81-8387-160-0.
Indian Diaspora : Trends and Issues/edited by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and K.
Laxmi Narayan. New Delhi, Serials, 2008, xii, 212 p., ISBN
81-8387-160-0.
Contents: Preface. 1. A brief history of Indian emigration during ancient and medieval period/K. Laxmi Narayan. 2. Overseas Indians the 'peculiar people/P.K. Mishra. 3. The relevance of life history writings as a methodological technique of social inquiry: the autobiography of Munshi Rahman Khan in understanding the Indian Diaspora/Mohan Gautam. 4. (Step) children of the rainbow nation? South African Indians in the post-apartheid era/Brij Maharaj. 5. A Hindu/Indian male anthropologist works among multi-ethnic Caribbean Women/Kumar Mahabir. 6. Is there a second Diasporic generation? The case of India's Hyderabadis/Karen Isaksen Leonard. 7. Situating Asian Indian Diaspora in the United States: an exploratory study/Mohammed Badrul Alam. 8. '9/11': Hindu and Asian responses in Oceania/Purushottama Bilimoria. 9. Miles and more: Highly skilled Migration, global innovation cultures and the question of regional embeddedness in India/Peter Seele. 10. Some reflections on Indian Diaspora in Canada/Ajaya Kumar Sahoo. 11. Swaminarayan Movement and Gujarati Diasporic identity/Farhat Naz. 12. Understanding transnational identity through consumption: issues and methodology/Kiranmayi Bhushi. 13. Trawling the virtual Indian Diaspora/Francis C. Assisi. 14. The Uneasy relationship with "Home" for South-Asian Diaspora Writers/Annette Gomis. 15. Satendra Nandan's The Wounded Sea: Paradise Found, Paradise Lost, Paradise Imagined/M. Dolores Herrero. 16. Diasporic writing by Indians/Mohan G. Ramanan. 17. The evolving Indian in Malaysian literature in English/Karthiyaini Devarajoo. 18. A select bibliography on Indian Diaspora/Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and K. Laxmi Narayan. Index.
"The Indian Diaspora is currently estimated to be more than twenty million by covering practically all over the world. The present book broadly focuses on the historical context of Indian emigration, Diaspora formation and retention of cultural identities of Indians in different parts of the diasporas. Some of the papers also focus on the writings of Indian Diasporic scholars. A selected bibliography on Indian Diaspora has been added further. The book will be useful not only to sociologist but also to scholars working in the fields of anthropology, political science, geography, history, Asian Studies, literary, cultural, ethnic and migration studies." (jacket)