Locating home : India's Hyderabadis abroad / Karen Isaksen Leonard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leonard, Karen Isaksen, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Indian diaspora.

East Indians--Foreign countries.

East Indians.

East Indians--India--Hyderabad.

India--Hyderabad.

Physical Description:

xi, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This book is a comparative study of Hyderabadi emigrants settling in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates at the end of the twentieth century. Based on ten years of fieldwork and extensive interviews, it traces Hyderabadi culture and institutions in these places of settlement, looking at the different versions of Hyderabadi history transmitted and the personal networks and collective bodies formed abroad.

Contents:

1 Starting Points 1

2 Necessary Orientations 12

3 Sites of Settlement 33

4 Pakistan: Changing Nations 56

5 The United Kingdom: An Early Outpost 84

6 Australia: Things Fall Apart 109

7 The United States: New Frontiers 136

8 Canada: Mixing In 171

9 Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates: Futures Reconfigured 190

10 Hyderabad: Reorientations 223

11 Hyderabadis Abroad: Locating Home 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-383) and index.

ISBN:

080475442X

9780804754422

OCLC:

69734551