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Author : Pramod Kumar Mishra,Urmila Mohapatra
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015051924887
Author : Joya Chatterji,David Washbrook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136018244
South Asia’s diaspora is among the world’s largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. It is estimated that over 25 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots in other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. There are 3 million South Asians in the UK and approximately the same number resides in North America. South Asians are an extremely significant presence in Southeast Asia and Africa, and increasingly visible in the Middle East. This inter-disciplinary handbook on the South Asian diaspora brings together contributions by leading scholars and rising stars on different aspects of its history, anthropology and geography, as well as its contemporary political and socio-cultural implications. The Handbook is split into five main sections, with chapters looking at mobile South Asians in the early modern world before moving on to discuss diaspora in relation to empire, nation, nation state and the neighbourhood, and globalisation and culture. Contributors highlight how South Asian diaspora has influenced politics, business, labour, marriage, family and culture. This much needed and pioneering venture provides an invaluable reference work for students, scholars and policy makers interested in South Asian Studies.
Author : Rajesh Rai,Chitra Sankaran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351551595
Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the diaspora. It accounts for the factors that underlie the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and considers how multicultural policies in the adopted state, trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also crucial is the gender dimension, in terms of how religion and caste affect women’s roles in the South Asian diaspora. What emerges then from the way separate communities in the diaspora negotiate religion are diverse patterns that are strategic and contingent. Yet, paradoxically, the dynamic and evolving relationship between religion and diaspora becomes necessary, even imperative, for sustaining a cohesive collective identity in these communities. This bookw as published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.
Author : Knut A. Jacobsen,Pratap Kumar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047401407
This book explores the role of religion in a great number of the South Asian diaspora communities around the world and is unique in its emphasis on religious diversity, both across and within the religious traditions.
Author : Selva J. Raj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317052296
The South Asian Christian diaspora is largely invisible in the literature about religion and migration. This is the first comprehensive study of South Asian Christians living in Europe and North America, presenting the main features of these diasporas, their community histories and their religious practices. The South Asian Christian diaspora is pluralistic both in terms of religious adherence, cultural tradition and geographical areas of origin. This book gives justice to such pluralism and presents a multiplicity of cultures and traditions typical of the South Asian Christian diaspora. Issues such as the institutionalization of the religious traditions in new countries, identity, the paradox of belonging both to a minority immigrant group and a majority religion, the social functions of rituals, attitudes to language, generational transfer, and marriage and family life, are all discussed.
Author : Selva J. Raj
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317052302
The South Asian Christian diaspora is largely invisible in the literature about religion and migration. This is the first comprehensive study of South Asian Christians living in Europe and North America, presenting the main features of these diasporas, their community histories and their religious practices. The South Asian Christian diaspora is pluralistic both in terms of religious adherence, cultural tradition and geographical areas of origin. This book gives justice to such pluralism and presents a multiplicity of cultures and traditions typical of the South Asian Christian diaspora. Issues such as the institutionalization of the religious traditions in new countries, identity, the paradox of belonging both to a minority immigrant group and a majority religion, the social functions of rituals, attitudes to language, generational transfer, and marriage and family life, are all discussed.
Author : Gita Rajan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080476784X
This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel, and globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States, and explains how their popular cultural practices and aesthetic desires are fulfilled. They are presented as the twenty-first century’s “new cosmopolitans”: flexible enough to adjust to globalization’s economic, political, and cultural imperatives. They are thus uniquely adaptable to the mainstream cultures of the United States, but also vulnerable in a period when nationalism and security have become tools to maintain traditional power relations in a changing world.
Author : Harold Coward,John R. Hinnells,Raymond Brady Williams
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791493021
This book explores the experience of religious communities that have migrated from South Asia (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) to live in Britain, Canada, and the United States, three countries sharing a common language (English) and an interwoven history. The work introduces the migration history of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs along with the cultural nuances of these traditions. The contributors discuss the various communities' experiences that grow out of or are related to religion. The book shows how traditions are reformed or reinvented and how they are passed on, both through the family and through institutions. Issues related to public policy and minority status are also addressed. While the main focus is on the Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities, specific sections also cover South Asian Christians, the Zoroastrian diaspora, and new religious movements in the West led by South Asians. The book strikes a balance between stories and statistics in order to emphasize the narrative of the immigrants' experience. [Contributors include: Roger Ballard, Judith Coney, Harold Coward, Diana L. Eck, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, John R. Hinnells, Kim Knott, Gurinder Singh Mann, Sheila McDonough, Jørgen S. Nielsen, Joseph T. O'Connell, and Raymond Brady Williams.]
Author : Papiya Ghosh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317809654
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Negotiating nations 2. Claiming Pakistan 3. Resisting Hindutva 4. Redoing South Asia 5. Conclusion Bibliography Index
Author : Carla Petievich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : South Asians
ISBN : UOM:39015052765586
The Phenomena Of Migration, Exile And Displacement Have Been A Concern To Cultural Critics And Scholars Of South Asia For Over A Decade Now. The Papers In This Volume Were First Presented At A Conference Held In 1993 At Columbia University. It Was An Opportunity To Examine Various Aspects Of Culture And Identity Among People Of South Asian Ethnic Origins Who Live Outside South Asia. Participants Considered And Analysed The Geographical Extent Of What Is Often So Casually Refered To As The South Asian Diaspora And The Wide Range Of Sub-Ethnicities Implied.
Author : Colin Clarke,Ceri Peach,Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521375436
Offers essays relating to the South Asian diaspora which occurred after slavery's end in the British Empire.
Author : Joel Kuortti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443810173
Joel Kuortti’s Writing Imagined Diasporas: South Asian Women Reshaping North American Identity is a study of diasporic South Asian women writers. It argues that the diasporic South Asians are not merely assimilating to their host cultures but they are also actively reshaping them through their own, new voices bringing new definitions of identity. As diaspora does not emerge as a mere sociological fact but it becomes what it is because it is said to be what it is, the writings of imagined diasporas challenge “national” discourses. Diaspora brings to mind various contested ideas and images. It can be a positive site for the affirmation of an identity, or, conversely, a negative site of fears of losing that identity. Diaspora signals an engagement with a matrix of diversity: of cultures, languages, histories, people, places, times. What distinguishes diaspora from some other types of travel is its centripetal dimension. It does not only mean that people are dispersed in different places but that they congregate in other places, forming new communities. In such gatherings, new allegiances are forged that supplant earlier commitments. New imagined communities arise that not simply substitute old ones but form a hybrid space in-between various identifications. This book looks into the ways in which diasporic Indian literature handles these issues. In the context of diaspora there is an imaginative construction of collective identity in the making, That a given diaspora comes to be seen as a community is the result of a process of imagining, at the same time creating new marginalities, hybridities and dependencies, resulting in multiple marginalizations, hyphenizations and demands for allegiance. The study concentrates on eleven contemporary women writers from the United States and Canada who write on South Asian diasporic experiences. The writers are Ramabai Espinet, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amulya Malladi, Sujata Massey, Bharati Mukherjee, Uma Parameswaran, Kirin Narayan, Anita Rau Badami, Robbie Clipper Sethi, Shauna Singh Baldwin, and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan.
Author : Nirmal Puwar,Parvati Raghuram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183702
South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are ‘performed'. What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both race and gender? In what ways do South Asian women struggle with Orientalist constructions? How do South Asian women engage with ‘indo-chic?' What dilemmas face the South Asian female scholar? With a combination of the most recent feminist perspectives on gender and the South Asian diaspora, questions of knowledge, power, space, body, aesthetics and politics are made central to this book. Building upon a range of experiences and reflecting on the actual conditions of the production of knowledge, South Asian Women in the Disapora represents a challenging contribution to any consideration of gender, race, culture and power.
Author : Nita Tewari,Alvin Alvarez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781841697697
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Judith M. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139458009
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.