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Global Indian diaspora : charting new frontiers. Volume I / edited by Brinsley Samaroo, Primnath Gooptar, Kumar Mahabir.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- GLOBAL INDIAN DIASPORA.1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indian diaspora.
- East Indians--Foreign countries.
- East Indians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2022]
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Brinsley Samaroo had a long and distinguished career in teaching, research and writing. Most of those years were spent at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). He has also served in the parliament of Trinidad and Tobago as a Senator and Cabinet Minister from 1981 to 1991. His published writings have focused on the Indian Diaspora, the Caribbean and South Indian history. Primnath Gooptar is a writer, biographer, social worker, cultural promoter, former school principal, Hindi cinema scholar and a lecturer in Indian Cinema (UWI), Trinidad. He has presented several papers on the Indian indentureship experience at conferences in Trinidad, United Kingdom, Suriname, Mauritius, St. Vincent and India. Kumar Mahabir is a former Assistant Professor at the University of Trinidad and Tobago. He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida. He won a Florida Caribbean Institute Award, an A. Curtis Wilgus Fellowship, and an Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowship.
- Contents:
- 1. Significance of History and Archaeological Studies within the Indian Diaspora 2. Representations and Misrepresentations of the Colonial South Asian Diaspora 3. How Indian Indenture Civilized England 4. Report of Canadian Mission Work in the Guaico Field 1891-1948 with Special Reference to the Ramsaran Family 5. Expressions and Dimensions of ⁰́₈Pain⁰́₉ within Some Indo-Caribbean Performative Traditions 6. Dispersal of Food from the Indian Subcontinent 7. Indian Indentured Labourers of Guyana: A Historical Fiction Perspective 8. Cheddi Jagan and Jung Bahadur Singh: The Shaping of an Indian Imagination in Guyana 9. The Temple in the Sea as a Symbol of the Universal Self 10. The Marginalization of Indian Men in Advertisements in Trinidad and Tobago
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Singh Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781003246060
- 1003246060
- 9781000507119
- 1000507114
- 9781000507157
- 1000507157
- Publisher Number:
- 99989318378
- 9781003246060
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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