Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora

by Singh; Gurharpal

• ISBN13: 9780415270052
• ISBN10: 0415270057
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134490523
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-23
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
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Summary

The Indian diaspora is one of the largest and most significant in the world today with between nine and twelve million people of Indian origin living outside South Asia. With successive waves of migration over the last two hundred years to almost every continent, it has assumed increasing self-consciousness and importance. Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora examines the Indian diaspora in Mauritius, South Africa, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Trinidad, Australia, the US, Canada and the UK and addresses the core issues of demography, economy, culture and future development. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the crucial relationship between culture and economy in the diaspora over time. This book will appeal to all those interested in transnational communities, migration, ethnicity and racial studies, and South Asia.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	ix
List of contributors	x
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Gurharpal Singh
Chota Bharat, Mauritius: the myth and the reality	13	(20)
Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing
Hinduism in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	33	(18)
Alleyn Diesel
Culture and economy: Tamils on the plantation frontier in Malaysia revisited, 1998--1999	51	(30)
Ravindra K. Jain
Diaspora and citizenship: forgotten routes of identity in Lanka	81	(21)
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake
Culture and economy in an `incipient' diaspora: Indians in the Persian Gulf region	102	(21)
Prakash C. Jain
The politics of `cultural renaissance' among Indo-Trinidadians	123	(19)
N. Jayaram
Indians at home in the Antipodes: migrating with Ph. D.s, bytes or kava in their bags	142	(23)
Carmen Voigt-Graf
Indian immigrants in the United States: the emergence of a transnational population	165	(18)
Johanna Lessinger
Imagining Indian diasporas in Canada: an epic without a text?	183	(14)
Harjot Oberoi
The South Asian presence in Britain and its transnational connections	197	(26)
Roger Ballard
Index	223