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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784307103321

Autore

Brown Judith M (Judith Margaret), <1944->

Titolo

Global South Asians : introducing the modern diaspora / / Judith M. Brown [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2006

ISBN

1-107-16390-0

1-280-70245-1

0-511-80765-1

0-511-24592-0

0-511-24445-2

0-511-24661-7

0-511-31897-9

0-511-24520-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

New approaches to Asian history ; ; 1

Disciplina

909.04914

Soggetti

South Asian diaspora

South Asians Migrations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-192) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century, many left reluctantly to seek economic opportunities which were lacking at home. This is the story of their often painful experiences in the diaspora, how they constructed new social communities overseas and how they maintained connections with the countries and the families they had left behind. It is a story compellingly told by one of the premier historians of modern South Asia, Judith Brown, whose particular knowledge of the diaspora in Britain and South Africa gives her insight as a commentator. This is a book which will have a broad appeal to general readers as well as to students of South Asian and colonial history, migration studies and



sociology.