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The Indian diaspora [electronic resource] : dynamics of migration / editor N. Jayaram ; foreword by S.L. Sharma ; [contributors, Yogesh Atal ... et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Themes in Indian sociology ; v. 4.
- Themes in Indian sociology ; v. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indian diaspora.
- East Indians--Migrations.
- East Indians.
- India--Emigration and immigration.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The study of Indian diaspora has emerged as a rich and variegated area of multidisciplinary research interest. This volume brings together nine seminal articles by well-known scholars which deal with the empirical reality of Indian diaspora and the theoretical and methodological issues raised by it. Between them they cover a variety of important aspects such as asocial adjustment, family change, religion, language, ethnicity and culture. This book is one of the Indian Sociological Society: Golden Jubilee Volumes.
- Contents:
- Perspectives on Indians abroad / S.L. Sharma
- Process of social adjustment of Indian immigrants in Britain / G.S. Aurora
- On migrating to Canada : the first generation Indian and Pakistani families in the process of change / Chaudhary M. Siddique
- Contemporary research on people of Indian origin in Canada / Norman Buchignani
- The influence of Indian Islam on fundamentalist trends in Trinidad and Tobago / Nasser Mustapha
- The dynamics of language in Indian diaspora : the case of Bhojpuri/Hindi in Trinidad / N. Jayaram
- Race relations, ethnicity, class, and culture : a comparison of Indians in Trinidad and Malaysia / Ravindra K. Jain
- The uneven inclusion of Indian immigrants in Mauritius / S.R. Mehta
- Outsiders as insiders : the phenomena of sandwich culture
- prefatorial to a possible theory / Yogesh Atal.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- "Select bibliography on the Indian diaspora": p. [219]-242.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07490-3
- 9786612074905
- 81-321-0177-4
- OCLC:
- 609836866
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