1st Edition
Political Integration in Indian Diaspora Societies
1. Introduction: The politics of Integration in Indian Diaspora Societies Part I: National Integration 2. Durban Indians and Self-Help in South Africa’s Democracy 3. Integrated Lives? A Reading of the Popularised Image as a Phenotype for Being Indian in South Africa 4. The NRI Gupta Waterkloof Landing: Implications for Political Integration of PIOs in South Africa Part II: Dualities in Integration 5. Transnational Identity and Political Integration in Trinidad and Tobago 6. Reconciling Boundaries and Identities: The World of Dr Sudhindra Bose in Early 20th Century America Part III: Global dimensions of integration 7. From Cyber-Hindutva to Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkar: (Trans)national Entanglements of Hindu Diaspora Political Integration 8. The Gift of Diasporic Citizenship: The Overseas Citizenship of India Scheme as a Tool for Nation-building 9. Indo-Caribbean Ethnicity and Political Integration
Biography
Ruben Gowricharn is Full Professor of Indian Diaspora Studies at the VU University in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has published extensively on diasporas, democracy and the integration of ethnic minorities. He has edited several books including Shifting Transnational Bonding in Indian Diaspora (2020). He is also the managing director of a doctoral program for adult migrant students in the Netherlands and Suriname.
