Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nation: Reflections from India
Author:   Ravindra K. Jain
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138662827


Pages:   170
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nation: Reflections from India


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Author:   Ravindra K. Jain
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9781138662827


ISBN 10:   1138662828
Pages:   170
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction: A World on the Move 1. Reflexivity and the Diaspora: Indian Women in Post-Indenture Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, and South Africa 2. Race Relations, Ethnicity, Class and Culture: Indians in Trinidad and Malaysia 3. From Product to Process: Sikh Diaspora in Southeast Asia 4. Indian Diasporic Integration in South Africa 5. Indians in Australia: Culture, Economy and Ecology 6. Home and Abroad in the New Millennium 7. The Indian Diaspora and its Governance 8. Indian Modernity and the Diaspora, a Civilizational Discourse. Conclusion: Diaspora, Trans-nation and Nation. Bibliography. Index.

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""Ravindra K. Jain’s book offers sharp and wide-ranging reflections lifting off from his 45 years of ethnographic fieldwork on the “old” diaspora, constituted by nineteenth-century labour migration to the plantation economies of Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji and South Africa."" - Kaveri Qureshi, Pacific Affairs: Volume 85, No. 1 - March 2012


Ravindra K. Jain's book offers sharp and wide-ranging reflections lifting off from his 45 years of ethnographic fieldwork on the old diaspora, constituted by nineteenth-century labour migration to the plantation economies of Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji and South Africa. - Kaveri Qureshi, Pacific Affairs: Volume 85, No. 1 - March 2012


"""Ravindra K. Jain’s book offers sharp and wide-ranging reflections lifting off from his 45 years of ethnographic fieldwork on the “old” diaspora, constituted by nineteenth-century labour migration to the plantation economies of Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji and South Africa."" - Kaveri Qureshi, Pacific Affairs: Volume 85, No. 1 - March 2012"


Author Information

R. K. Jain is Visiting Professor, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia.

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