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

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-d...

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Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2006]
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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1030 p.)
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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