Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora

Bhikhu Parekh, Gurharpal Singh, Steven Vertovec

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN: 9780415270052
• eBook ISBN: 9781134490523
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The Indian diaspora is one of the largest and most significant in the world today with between nine and twelve million people of Indian origin living outside South Asia. With successive waves of migration over the last two hundred years to almost every continent, it has assumed increasing self-consciousness and importance.
Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora examines the Indian diaspora in Mauritius, South Africa, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Trinidad, Australia, the US, Canada and the UK and addresses the core issues of demography, economy, culture and future development. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the crucial relationship between culture and economy in the diaspora over time.
This book will appeal to all those interested in transnational communities, migration, ethnicity and racial studies, and South Asia.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Tables and figures
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1: Chota Bharat, Mauritius The myth and the reality
• 2: Hinduism in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• 3: Culture and economy Tamils on the plantation frontier in Malaysia revisited, 1998–1999
• 4: Diaspora and citizenship Forgotten routes of identity in Lanka
• 5: Culture and economy in an ‘incipient’ diaspora Indians in the Persian Gulf region
• 6: The politics of ‘cultural renaissance’ among Indo-Trinidadians
• 7: Indians at home in the Antipodes Migrating with Ph.D.s, bytes or kava1 in their bags2 142 Authors name
• 8: Indian immigrants in the United States The emergence of a transnational population
• 9: Imagining Indian diasporas in Canada An epic without a text?
• 10: The South Asian presence in Britain and its transnational connections