Global Indian diaspora : charting new frontiers. Volume II / edited by J. Vijay Maharaj, Radica Mahase.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maharaj, J. Vijay, editor.

Mahase, Radica, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Singh Family Fund.

Series:

GLOBAL INDIAN DIASPORA.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Indian diaspora.

East Indians--Foreign countries.

East Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, [2022]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

J. Vijay Maharaj is a Lecturer in the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine. Her areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the making of political and cultural identities, the trauma associated with postcolonial and modern histories as well as the convergences between neurosciences and literature. Radica Mahase is currently a Senior Lecturer in History at the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago. She is the co-author of Caribbean History for CSEC (2014), author of Why Should We Be Called "Coolies" The End of the Indian Indentured Labour (2021). Her research interests include Indian indentureship, Indian diaspora and South Asian Studies.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Who Am I? It Depends! The Evolving Nature of Identity from Out of Africa and into Space 2. (Re)Constructing Hindu Funerary Rites in Modern Trinidad 3. Hindostanis in the Netherlands: A Success Story? 4. Neighbourhood Revitalization in New York City: Indo-Caribbeans Make a Mark 5. Neil Bissoondath⁰́₉s A Casual Brutality and Rabindranath Maharaj⁰́₉s Homer in Flight: Travelling without Luggage 6. Adaptation and Survival in a Small Society: The Indians of St. Vincent and the Grenadines 7. Indian Involvement in Cricket in the Caribbean 8. The Future of Citizenship in the Global Age 9. In the Land of Opportunity: A Study of the Indo-Caribbean Community in New York City 10. Consideration of Research Management and Diasporic Bonding between Higher Education Institutes in Trinidad and the Indian Diaspora: A Case Study Approach 11. Highlighting Contribution of Diasporic Indians to the Multi-Ethnicities of Belize

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Singh Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781003246091

1003246095

9781000507171

1000507173

9781000507225

100050722X

Publisher Number:

99989318382

9781003246091

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