Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables and figures......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Chota Bharat, Mauritius: the myth and the reality......Page 26
Hinduism in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa......Page 46
Culture and economy: Tamils on the plantation frontier in Malaysia revisited, 1998  1999......Page 64
Diaspora and citizenship: forgotten routes of identity in Lanka......Page 94
Culture and economy in an \'incipient\' diaspora: Indians in the Persian Gulf region......Page 115
The politics of \'cultural renaissance\' among Indo-Trinidadians......Page 136
Indians at home in the Antipodes: migrating with Ph.D.s, bytes or kava in their bags......Page 155
Indian immigrants in the United States: the emergence of a transnational population......Page 178
Imagining Indian diasporas in Canada: an epic without a text?......Page 196
The South Asian presence in Britain and its transnational connections......Page 210
Index......Page 236