Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface 1. Questions of Ethnicity 2. Being Vilayati, Becoming Asian: Keeping up with the Kapurs, the Chawlas, the Kalias, and the Aggarwals in London 3. "I Am From Nowhere": Partition and Being Punjabi 4. Becoming a Hindu Community 5. The Search for a Suitable Boy 6. Becoming British Asian: Intergenerational Negotiations of Racism 7. Being British, Becoming a Person of Indian Origin 8. "Where Are You Originally From?" Multiculturalism, Citizenship, and Transnational Differences Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Dhooleka S. Raj is a Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies at Harvard University. She was formerly a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and Smuts-Hinduja Fellow at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.

Reviews

"A new insight into the ethnic conflicts and cutlural nostalgia of middle-class migrants in the modern age."--"India Today"