Transnational South Asians: The Making of a Neo-Diaspora

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Over the last decade, the South Asian Diaspora has been the focus of intense interest. In an era of mass migration and easy communication, borders have become porous and populations have multiple allegiances. South Asian Diasporic identities have shown an extraordinary capacity to thrive in the face of exclusion, partition and expulsion and to embrace pluralism, assimilation and dual citizenship. Their experiences illuminate the topographies of identity and loyalty transforming the new global order. Following a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines practices of political organization, civic participation, religious activity, cultural production, sexual relationships, family organization and economic activity through which displaced communities reconstruct themselves. It, thus allows us to probe scalar levels from individual to the community, to national to global. Ideas of home, cast in a world-in-motion, offer new understandings of globality and belonging. This volume spans four centuries–from the little-known eighteenth-century Indian Ocean slave diaspora to the high-velocity mobility of the twenty-first century. During this time, South Asian slaves, convicts, indentured workers, traders, techies, maids, nurses, and their families have spread to all six inhabited continents. The essays offer shifting views of the geographical heterogeneity and historical transformations of this diaspora. Critically, they discuss subjects often misrepresented or marginalized in existing literature-slaves, women migrants, queer desis, Ceylonese indentured laborers, British Muslims, and the contemporary Lankan Tamil Diaspora. A milestone in diaspora studies, this collection will be useful for students of sociology, anthropology, history, politics, globalization, migration, transnationalism, and postcolonial studies.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR R. Radhakrishnan

R. Radhakrishna is Director, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai since March 2001. From April 1998 to March 2001, he was the Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University. After his doctorate from Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics, Pune, Prof. Radhakrishna had about three decades of career in research, teaching and administration of academic institutions. He was the Member Secretary, ICSSR and was the Director, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad. He was the recipient of VKRV Rao Price in social Science Research for his significant contribution in the field of Economics. He was President of the Agricultural Marketing Society and of the Indian society of Labour Economics for the Year 2001. He was a consultant to international organisations like ABD, FAO, The world Bank and UNDP and UNESCO. He was a member of several Government Committees including the Expert Group on Estimation of Proportion and Number of Poor (Lakdawala Committee), Planning Commission, Government of India (1989-93) and High Power Committee for Long term Grain Policy (Abhijit Sen Committee), Government of India, 2000-02.

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Transnational South Asians: The Making of a Neo-Diaspora
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1st ed.
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0195695895
Length
viii+378p.
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