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Author:   Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Professor, Professor, Asian History and Director of the New Zealand India Research Institute at Victoria University) ,  Jane Buckingham (Professor, Professor, history at the University of Canterbury)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.474kg
ISBN:  

9780199483624

ISBN 10:   0199483620
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction/ Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Jane Buckingham 1. Identity and Invisibility: Early Indian Presence in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1769-1850/ Todd Nachowitz 2. Circuitous Routes: Journeys from India to Australia by way of the sugar colonies/ Margaret Allen 3. Naming Charlie: Inscribing British Indian Identities in White Australia, 1901-1940/Kama Maclean 4. Indian Migration to New Zealand in the 1920s: Deciphering the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1920/ Michael Roche and Sita Venkateswar 5. Totaram Sanadhya's Experience of Racism in early White Australia (a transcreated narrative)/Purushottama Bilimoria 6. 'Not as a Stranger or a Tourist': Leonora Gmeiner and the First Girls' School in Delhi/ Devleena Ghosh and Heather Goodall 7. 'Did you know your great grandmother was an Indian Princess?': Early Anglo-Indian arrivals in New Zealand/Robyn Andrews 8. 'A Rich Tapestry': The Life and Heritage of Sir Anand Satyanand/ Jacqueline Leckie 9. Class and Caste Consciousness: The Narratives of Indian Sub-continental Diaspora in Australia/Amit Sarwal 10. Negotiating Indianness: Auckland's Shifting Cultural Festivities/ Alison Booth? About the Editors and Contributors Index

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Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Asian History and Director of the New Zealand India Research Institute at Victoria University of Wellington. His primary research interest is in the history of nationalism and caste system in colonial and postcolonial India. He is also interested in the history of Indian migration and the Indian Diaspora. He has written seven books, edited or co-edited nine books, and published more than forty book chapters and journal articles. His most recent books are From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India (Second Edition, 2015) and (co-ed.) Religion and Modernity in India (2016). In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In 2014, for his book Decolonization in South Asia he was awarded Rabindra Puraskar. Jane Buckingham teaches history at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She specialises in Indian history and has published in areas including medical and disability history, human/animal relations, business and legal history. She is particularly interested in histories of health, migration and labour. She is the author of Leprosy in colonial south India: medicine and confinement (2002). Her most recent co-edited book is Conflict, negotiation, and coexistence: rethinking human-elephant relations in South Asia (2016).

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