Community, Empire and Migration [[electronic resource] ] : South Asians in Diaspora / / by Crispin Bates

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779954203321
• Autore: Bates Crispin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2001
• ISBN: 0-333-97729-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2001.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8914
• Soggetti: Asia—Politics and government; International relations; Ethnicity; Emigration and immigration; Popular culture - Study and teaching; Social history; Asian Politics; International Relations; Ethnicity Studies; Migration; Cultural Studies; Social History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Preliminaries""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""List of Maps""; ""Preface""; ""Notes on the Contributors""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. 'The Cannot Represent Themselves'""; ""3. Nested Identities""; ""4. The Development of Communalism among East African Asians""; ""5. Imagining? Ethic Identity and Indians in South Africa""; ""6. Migration, Migrant Communities and Otherness in Twentieth-Centur Sinhala Nationalism in Sri Lanka""; ""7. Sojoumers and Settlers""; ""8. Communitarian Identities and the Private Sphere""; ""9. Hyderabadis in Pakistan""; ""10. Mohajirs in Pakistan""; ""11. Bridging the Gulf""""12. Relationships between Muslims and ; Hindus in the United States""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.