Tracing the new Indian diaspora / / edited by Om Prakash Dwivedi.

The growing importance of the Indian diaspora is felt today across the globe due to its emergence as the second-largest dias¬poric community. By examining historical, socio-cultural, economic, political, and lite¬rary aspects of the Indian diaspora, this volume sets out to trace the latest devel¬opm...

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Superior document:Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English ; 176
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Rodopi.
c2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Cross/Cultures 176.
Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Political PIO: Thoughts on the Political Impact of the Indian Diaspora / Pierre Gottschlich
  • Hambakhaya! Hambauyee Bombay! (Go home! Go to Bombay!): Challenges Facing South African Indians in the Post-Apartheid Era / Brij Maharaj
  • Indians in Malaysia, 1900–2010: Different Migration Streams, One Diaspora / Amarjit Kaur
  • The New Irish?: Indian Diasporas in Ireland / Louise Harrington
  • Giving Back to India: Investment Opportunities and Challenges / Anjali Sahay
  • Certain Allegiances, Uncertain Identities: The Fraught Struggles of Dalits in Britain / Meena Dhanda
  • The Indian Diaspora in New Zealand: Identities and Cultural Representations / Wardlow Friesen
  • Finding Refuge in Culture: Race, Place, and Immigrant Identity in the Indian Diaspora / Sunil Bhatia
  • In Search of the ‘Children of the Wind’: A Journey to Chattisgarh / Brij V. Lal
  • The Ecology of Disaster: A Reading of Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing / Chitra Sankaran
  • Representations Juxtaposed: A Home Author and a Diasporic Author Depict Coorg / Lisa Lau
  • Love and Longing for Mumbai: Vikram Chandra’s Fiction and Bollywood Cinema / Maria Ridda
  • Rifts and Riffs, Roots and Routes: Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge / Judith Misrahi–Barak
  • Boundary-Marking in the Diaspora: An Analysis of Women Characters in Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters / Uma Jayaraman
  • A Home of One’s Own: Gender, Family, and Nation in Indian-American Literature and Film / Pranav Jani
  • Notes on Contributors / Pranav Jani.