Sikhs in Southeast Asia : negotiating an identity / edited by Shamsul AB & Arunajeet Kaur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shamsul Amri Baharuddin.

Kaur, Arunajeet

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Christine Hikawa Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sikhs--Southeast Asia--Congresses.

Sikhs.

Southeast Asia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xviii, 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.

Summary:

While significant research has been conducted on the Sikh diaspora communities of the West, very little has been conducted on the Sikh communities that settled in Southeast Asia, despite the fact that they arrived much earlier and are now into their fifth generation. This volume addresses that gap by gathering 14 papers from an eponymous May 2008 conference held at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, that bring together empirical research on Sikhs in Brunei, Myanmar, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia. The papers address such topics as entrepreneurship, identity construction and negotiation, gender, and ethnic politics. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

"This volume is an outcome of a conference, 'Sikhs in Multiracial Southeast Asia: Negotiating an Identity', held at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in May 2008."--P. [vii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.

ISBN:

9814279641

9789814279659

981427965X

9789814279642

9789814279666

9814279668

OCLC:

754846570

Publisher Number:

99949485857