Landscape and the Bengali Diaspora
eBook - ePub

Landscape and the Bengali Diaspora

Skilled Prabasi Bengali Migration within and beyond India

  1. 230 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Landscape and the Bengali Diaspora

Skilled Prabasi Bengali Migration within and beyond India

About this book

Bengalis have been great travellers for centuries and are famous for recreating their way of life wherever they go. This book critically analyses skilled Bengali migration within and beyond India and looks at landscapes created by the Bengali diaspora beyond the terrain of their homeland, ranging from those of nostalgia and imagination (Durga Puja/Saraswati Puja) to those of subjugation and loss of identity.

This book demonstrates the relationship between landscape and diaspora in terms of perception, imagination, space and place, ethnicity, race, caste, and class. With case studies from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Dehra Dun, Oxford, Aberdeen, New York, and the Bay Area (USA), it brings together themes like evolution of the Bengali diaspora, transnationalism and identity, stratification and segregation, urban social space, adaptation and assimilation, and questions of discrimination from other communities.

Drawing on ethnographic accounts of over 300 skilled Bengalis, the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of diaspora studies, urban studies, ethnic studies, migration studies, geography, sociology, history, and political studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Endorsement Page
  3. Half Title page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Figures
  9. Tables
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 Landscape and Diaspora
  13. 3 The Evolution of the Bengali Diaspora
  14. 4 Landscape and the Bengali Built Environment: The Physical Landscape
  15. 5 Landscape and the Bengali Social Environment: The Social Landscape
  16. 6 Conclusions
  17. Questionnaires
  18. Photographs
  19. Select Bibliography
  20. Index