Indian Communities in Southeast Asia (First Reprint 2006) / / ed. by Kernial Singh Sandhu, A. Mani.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Arasaratnam, Sinnappah,; Bachtiar, Harsja W.,; Brown, Rajeswary Ampalavanar,; Chan, Paul T. H.,; Chanda, Nayan,; Evers, Hans-Dieter,; Jeyakumar, D.,; Kim, Khoo Kay,; Kyi, Khin Maung,; Mani, A.,; Marimuthu, T.,; Meyanathan, Sahathavan,; Muzaffar, Chandra,; Nagata, Judith,; Nakavachara, Netnapis,; Oorjitham, K. S. Susan,; Pavadarayan, Jayarani,; Puthucheary, Mavis,; Rajakrishnan, R.,; Rajoo, R.,; Ramasamy, P.,; Rye, Ajit Singh,; Sandhu, Kemial Singh,; Sandhu, Kernial Singh,; Shantakumar, G.,; Shotam, Nirmala Puru,; Siddique, Sharon,; Singh, D.S. Ranjit,; Sinha, Vineeta,; Sivalingam, A.,; Sundaram, Jomo Kwame,; Taylor, Robert H.,; Than, Mya,; Than, Tin Maung Maung,
• HerausgeberIn: Mani, A.,; Singh Sandhu, Kernial,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1030 p.)

In Indian Communities in Southeast Asia thirty-one scholars provide an analytical commentary on the contemporary position of ethnic Indians in Southeast Asia. The book is the outcome of a ten-year project undertaken by the editors at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. It is multi-disciplinary in focus and multi-faceted in approach, providing a comprehensive account of the way people originating from the Indian subcontinent have integrated themselves in the various Southeast Asian countires. The study provides insights into understanding how Indians, an intra-ethnically diverse immigrant group, have intermingled in Southeast Asia, a region that itself is ethnically diverse.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Preface to the First Reprint Edition -- BRUNEI DARUSSALAM -- 1. A Community in Transition: Indians in Negara Brunei Darussalam -- INDOCHINA -- 2. Indians in Indochina -- INDONESIA -- 3. Indians in North Sumatra -- 4. Indians in Jakarta -- 5. INDIANS IN INDONESIA -- MALAYSIA -- 6. The Coming of the Indians to Malaysia -- 7. Malaysian Indians: The Formation of Incipient Society -- 8. Political Marginalization in Malaysia -- 9. The Contemporary Indian Political Elite in Malaysia -- 10. Malay Attitudes towards Indians -- 11. Plantation Capital and Indian Labour in Colonial Malaya -- 12. Socio-Economic Transformation of Malaysian Indian Plantation Workers -- 13. Indians in the Public Sector in Malaysia -- 14. ETHNIC SOCIO-ECONOMIC DISTRIBUTION -- 15. Economic Problems and Challenges Facing the Indian Community in Malaysia -- 16. THE INDIAN POOR IN MALAYSIA Problems and Solutions -- 17. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CORRELATES OF FERTILITY -- 18. The Plantation School As an Agent of Social Reproduction -- 19. INDIAN SQUAI.IER SEITILERS -- 20. Urban Working-Class Indians in Malaysia -- 21. Religion and Ethnicity among the Indian Muslims of Malaysia -- 22. Social Change and Group Identity among the Sri Lankan Tamils -- 23. S IN MALAYSIA -- 24. Indians in East Malaysia -- MYANMAR (BURMA) -- 25. Some Aspects of Indians in Rangoon -- 26. INDIANS IN BURMA -- 27. The Legal Status of Indians in Contemporary Bunna -- 28. JAIRAMPUR -- PHILIPPINES -- 29. The Indian Community in the Philippines -- 30. Indian Immigration and Settlement in Singapore -- 31. Indians in Singapore Society -- 32. Spouse Selection Patterns in the Singapore Indian Community -- 33. Hinduism in Contemporary Singapore -- 34. RELIGIOUS FERVOUR AND ECONOMIC SUCCESS -- 35. THE INDIAN POPULATION OF SINGAPORE -- THAILAND -- 36. Indians in Thailand -- INDIAN COMMUNITIES IN BANGKOK -- Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index