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Nation and Migration : The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora / Peter van der Veer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: South Asia SeminarPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1995Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (260 p.) : 7 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812232592
  • 9781512807837
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909 20
LOC classification:
  • DS339.4
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination -- 1. A Sikh Diaspora? Contested Identities and Constructed Realities -- 2. Bhakti and Postcolonial Politics: Hindu Missions to Fiji -- 3. Projecting Identities: Empire and Indentured Labor Migration from India to Trinidad and British Guiana, 1836–1885 -- 4. Homeland, Motherland: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Ideologies of Place among Muslims in Trinidad -- 5. Hindus in Trinidad and Britain: Ethnic Religion, Reification, and the Politics of Public Space -- 6. New York City's Muslim World Day Parade -- 7. Indian Immigrants in Queens, New York City: Patterns of Spatial Concentration and Distribution, 1965–1990 -- 8. Gendering Diaspora: Space, Politics, and South Asian Masculinities in Britain -- 9. New Cultural Forms and Transnational South Asian Women: Culture, Class, and Consumption among British South Asian Women in the Diaspora -- Contributor -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: Peter van der Veer and the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between South Asian nationalism, migration, ethnicity, and the construction of religious identity. Although nationality and diaspora seem to represent opposite ideas and values, the authors argue that nationalism is strengthened, even produced, by migration.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination -- 1. A Sikh Diaspora? Contested Identities and Constructed Realities -- 2. Bhakti and Postcolonial Politics: Hindu Missions to Fiji -- 3. Projecting Identities: Empire and Indentured Labor Migration from India to Trinidad and British Guiana, 1836–1885 -- 4. Homeland, Motherland: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Ideologies of Place among Muslims in Trinidad -- 5. Hindus in Trinidad and Britain: Ethnic Religion, Reification, and the Politics of Public Space -- 6. New York City's Muslim World Day Parade -- 7. Indian Immigrants in Queens, New York City: Patterns of Spatial Concentration and Distribution, 1965–1990 -- 8. Gendering Diaspora: Space, Politics, and South Asian Masculinities in Britain -- 9. New Cultural Forms and Transnational South Asian Women: Culture, Class, and Consumption among British South Asian Women in the Diaspora -- Contributor -- Index -- Backmatter

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Peter van der Veer and the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between South Asian nationalism, migration, ethnicity, and the construction of religious identity. Although nationality and diaspora seem to represent opposite ideas and values, the authors argue that nationalism is strengthened, even produced, by migration.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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