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Shantini Pillai offers a challenging way of rethinking the transitions from a colonial to a globalized order through the active role of so-called minority ethnic groups. Focusing on a little discussed topic in global postcolonial studies--Malaysian Indians--she admirably draws attention to multiculturalism, ethnicity, diaspora, migration and coolie labour as issues that emerge during colonial rule and produce the character of globalization, which Pillai rightly suggests cannot be separated from its colonial roots. The book will make a valuable contribution to diaspora studies from the colonial to the postcolonial era. - Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University, author of Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief

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Shanthini Pillai is a senior lecturer at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Malaysia. She holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the National University of Singapore. Her main teaching areas are Literary Theory and Literatures from postcolonial societies. Shanthini has been largely interested in research in the field of Diaspora, Subalternity and Resistance with a specific focus on Postcoloniality and the possibilities and problematics of identity formation as a result of migration. She has published widely on this subject and her articles have appeared in a selection of international journals and books on post-colonialism and diaspora. She is a recipient of the Australia-Malaysia Institute Fellowships for the year 2007.

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