9788187586388 - Interpreting the Indian Diaspora: Lessons from History & Contemporay Politics (8) (History of Science, Philosophy & Culture in Indian Civilization, 10, Band 8) (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents General introduction/D.P. Chattopadhyaya. Editors. Contributors. Introduction/Jayanta Kumar Ray. 1. The Indian Trade Diaspora in Eurasia some debates/Anita Sengupta. 2. Class caste and the Indian Diaspora the story of Tamil migration to Ceylon and Malay in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries/Jayanta Kumar Ray and Rajsekhar Basu. 3. Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean/Jayanta Kumar Ray and Sanjukta Das Gupta. 4. The house/Marina Budhos. 5. Indian Diaspora migrants from the Bhojpuri Region cultural continuity and change A perspective/Suchita Ramdin. 6. Calcutta as a Metaphor in the Indian Diaspora with reference to Mauritius/Saloni Deerpalsingh. 7. Indians in Fiji/Jayanta Kumar Ray and Raj Sekhar Basu. 8. Indians in Myanmar/Swapna Bhattacharya (Chakraborti). 9. The Indian Diaspora in Germany/Pierre Gottschlich. 10. Going global Bollywood and the New Indians abroad/Makarand Paranjape. 11. Nationalist romance to postcolonial sport Cricket in 2006 India/Boria Majumdar. 12. India's Diaspora Policy/Jayanta Kumar Ray and Binoda Kumar Mishra. 13. After the Rainbow South Africans and racial conflict/Brij Maharaj and Ashwin Desai. 14. Role of Diaspora in India's economic development/Amitendu Palit. 15. India's policy for Diaspora continuity and change/Smita Tiwari. 16. Indian Diaspora and Home country Linkages expectations and emerging options/Geeta Verma. 17. The Indian Diaspora as a strategic asset/Amit Gupta. Index. The volumes of the Project on the History of Science Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India's heritage and present them in an interrelated way. In spite of their unitary look these volumes recognize the difference between the areas of material civilization and those of ideational culture. The project is not being executed by a single group of thinkers and writers who are methodologically uniform or ideologically identical in their commitments. The project is marked by what may be called Methodological pluralism. In spite of its primarily historical character this project both in its conceptualization and execution has been shaped by scholars drawn from different disciplines. It is the first time that an endeavour of such unique and comprehensive character has been undertaken to study critically a major world civilization. The Indian diaspora emerging in the ancient period and expanding in the medieval period exhibited a fascinating evolution in the colonial and post colonial times although this volume concentrates on the colonial and post colonial days. In the colonial period the Indian diaspora emerged largely from the introduction by the British of a sophisticated version of slavery. This was called the system of indentured labour. It is possible to raise the question of whether from a long term perspective the impact of the indentured labour system has been positive (in a democratic country like Mauritius which received the first batch of Indian labourers in 1834). For not to speak of a number of extraordinarily rich descendants of former indentured labourers even the average standard of living of these descendants in Mauritius is far higher than that of their counterparts in present day Bihar and U.P. Nevertheless descendants of indentured labourers in other places (e.g. in Guyana and Myanmar) have not been as lucky as those in Mauritius on account of a poor state of governance. It is necessary to distinguish between members of the old diaspora (in Mauritius e.g.) and of the new diaspora (in Germany e.g.). The former are regarded as the People of Indian Origin (PIOs). And the latter are called Non Resident Indians (NRIs). The latter use knowledge in information technology as a resource for enhancement of self respect and for globalizing themselves. But interestingly they also use Bollywood films to consolidate their Indianness in the realm of feelings and emotions. A similar habitat is provided to the new Indian diaspora by the Indian cricket team.