Indians And The Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries, and Circulation

Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar; Buckingham, Jane

ISBN 10: 0199483620 / ISBN 13: 9780199483624

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2018

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 042686

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Indians And The Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries, and Circulation
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0199483620
• ISBN-13: 9780199483624
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

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Indians now constitute a significant ethnic minority in Australia and New Zealand. According to the most recent census figures, they number slightly more than half a million, but represent a successful ethnic community making significant contributions to their host societies and economies. The histories of their migration go back to the early colonial period, but rarely do they find any space in the global literature on Indian diaspora, probably because of their small numbers. This book covers their history over the past two and half centuries, covering both the 'old' and the 'new' diaspora; the first group consisting of the labourers who migrated under pressure of colonial capital, and the second group representing the post-war professional migrants. But this book is not just about the diaspora, it also looks closely at the host societies which over this period have been receiving and interacting with these migrants. And it looks at a few Antipodeans too, who were going to India in the early twentieth century and making contributions in terms of ideas and service.

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Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Asian History and Director of the New Zealand India Research Institute at Victoria University of Wellington. His primary research interest is in the history of nationalism and caste system in colonial and postcolonial India. He is also interested in the history of Indian migration and the Indian Diaspora. He has written seven books, edited or co-edited nine books, and published more than forty book chapters and journal articles. His most recent books are From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India (Second Edition, 2015) and (co-ed.) Religion and Modernity in India (2016). In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In 2014, for his book Decolonization in South Asia he was awarded Rabindra Puraskar.

Jane Buckingham teaches history at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She specialises in Indian history and has published in areas including medical and disability history, human/animal relations, business and

legal history. She is particularly interested in histories of health, migration and labour. She is the author of Leprosy in colonial south India: medicine and confinement (2002). Her most recent co-edited book is Conflict, negotiation, and coexistence: rethinking human-elephant relations in South Asia (2016).