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Community, Empire and Migration

South Asians in Diaspora

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Crispin Bates

    1. Department of History, University of Edinburgh, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Community and Identity among South Asians in Diaspora

    • Crispin Bates
    Pages 1-45

  3. ‘They Cannot Represent Themselves’: Threats to Difference and So-Called Community Politics in Fiji from 1936 to 1947

    • John D. Kelly
    Pages 46-86

  4. Nested Identities: Ethnicity, Community and the Nature of Group Conflict in Mauritius

    • Ari Nave
    Pages 87-108

  5. The Development of Communalism among East African Asians

    • Michael Twaddle
    Pages 109-122

  6. Imagining? Ethnic Identity and Indians in South Africa

    • Ravi K. Thiara
    Pages 123-152

  7. Migration, Migrant Communities and Otherness in Twentieth-Century Sinhala Nationalism in Sri Lanka (up to Independence)

    • Nira Wickramasinghe
    Pages 153-184

  8. Sojourners and Settlers: South Indians and Communal Identity in Malaysia

    • Amarjit Kaur
    Pages 185-205

  9. Communitarian Indentities and the Private Sphere: A Gender Dialogue Amongst Indo-Trinidadians (1845–1917)

    • Sumita Chatterjee
    Pages 206-223

  10. Hyderabadis in Pakistan: Changing Nations

    • Karen Leonard
    Pages 224-244

  11. Mohajirs in Pakistan: A Case of Nativization of Migrants

    • Mohammad Waseem
    Pages 245-260

  12. Bridging the Gulf: Global Horizons, Mobility and Local Identity among Muslims in Mumbai

    • Thomas Blom Hansen
    Pages 261-285

  13. Relationships between Muslims and Hindus in the United States: Mlecchas versus Kafirs?

    • Aminah T. Mohammad
    Pages 286-308

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 309-319
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About this book

South Asians in Diaspora is a collection of essays concerning the history, politics, and anthropology of migration in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as in the numerous overseas locations, such as Fiji, Africa, the Caribbean and USA, where South Asians migrated in the colonial period and after. It addresses the connections between migration, problems of identity and ethnic conflict from a comparative perspective, and highlights the role of shared colonial experiences in providing 'communal' solidarities and discord.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, University of Edinburgh, UK

    Crispin Bates

About the editor

CRISPIN BATES is Senior Lecturer in South Asian History at the Department of History, University of Edinburgh. His publications include Subalterns and the Raj: A History of Modern India.

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