1st Edition
Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nation Reflections from India
By Ravindra K. Jain
Copyright 2010
170 Pages
by
Routledge India
170 Pages
by
Routledge India
170 Pages
by
Routledge India
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A premier debate in the present conjuncture of globalization has been the prospect of ‘post nation’ and the obsolescence of patriotism at the horizon of transnationalism. In an ethnographically rich and discursively sharp intervention R. K. Jain articulates the contribution that diaspora studies can make to this debate.
In this anthropological narrative both nation and trans-nation are ‘moving... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction: A World on the Move 1. Reflexivity and the Diaspora: Indian Women in Post-Indenture Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, and South Africa 2. Race Relations, Ethnicity, Class and Culture: Indians in Trinidad and Malaysia 3. From Product to Process: Sikh Diaspora in Southeast Asia 4. Indian Diasporic Integration in South Africa 5. Indians in Australia: Culture, Economy and Ecology 6. Home and Abroad in the New Millennium 7. The Indian Diaspora and its Governance 8. Indian Modernity and the Diaspora, a Civilizational Discourse. Conclusion: Diaspora, Trans-nation and Nation. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
R. K. Jain is Visiting Professor, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia.
"Ravindra K. Jain’s book offers sharp and wide-ranging reflections lifting off from his 45 years of ethnographic fieldwork on the “old” diaspora, constituted by nineteenth-century labour migration to the plantation economies of Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji and South Africa." - Kaveri Qureshi, Pacific Affairs: Volume 85, No. 1 - March 2012
