Table of Contents

Table of Contents[-] - 6[-]Acknowledgements[-] - 8[-]Ch. 1: Global Indian Diasporas Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory[-] - 10[-]Part 1: Critical historical perspectives[-] - 30[-] Ch. 2: Multanis and Shikarpuris Indian Diasporas in Historical Perspective[-] - 32[-] Ch. 3: 'We Lost our Gift of Expression' Loss of the Mother Tongue among South Asians in East Africa, 1880-2000[-] - 68[-] Ch. 4: Contextualising Diasporic Identity Implications of Time and Space on Telugu Immigrants[-] - 90[-] Ch. 5: Seperated by the Partition? Muslims of British Indian Descent in Mauritius and Suriname[-] - 120[-]Part 2: Critical Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives[-] - 148[-] Ch. 6: A Chance Diaspora British Gujarati Hindus[-] - 150[-] Ch. 7: Contested Family relations and Government Policy Links between Patel Migrants in Britain and India[-] - 168[-] Ch. 8: Diaspora Revisited Second-Generation Nizari Ismaili Muslims of Gujarati Ancestry[-] - 196[-] Bollywood and the Indian diaspora Reception of Indian cinema among Hindustani youth in the Netherlands[-] - 212[-] Ch. 10: Contested Equality Social Relations between Indian and Surinamese Hindus in Amsterdam[-] - 236[-] Ch. 11: Afterword Stray Thoughts of an Historian on 'Indian' or 'South Asian' 'Diaspora(s)'[-] - 264[-]Bibliography[-] - 276[-]Contributors[-] - 292

About the Author

Gijsbert Oonk is senior lecturer in Non-Western History at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.