Pub Date : 2023-02-02DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2023.2168886
Roli Misra
the Anglo-Indian community as reflected in different forms of arts, literature, film and performance. The first article in the section, written by Shyamasri Maji, discusses the community’s altering sense of home as reflected in Anglo-Indian identity. Maji also explores how several world socio-political incidents impacted the perspective of the Anglo-Indian immigrant, as echoes in the selected literature. Merin Simi Raj and Avishek Parui’s article used the idea of ‘identity-consumption’ and highlighted how the remembering of the personal and collective memory helped the identity formation of the Paranki Community in Kerala while discussing the translated Malayalam novel of Johny Miranda. Sreya Ann Oommen’s work on the Indo-French families of Mahe during the post -1954 shows how this group’s identity, history and culture were misidentified and misunderstood and spread a sense of exclusion and dejection among the group. Glenn D’Cruz’s article uses non-text art forms to research the Anglo-Indian identity and culture. While using the methodology of autoethnography and multimedia performances, D’Cruz deciphers the question of belonging and identity. The book’s last chapter, written by Jade Furness, highlights his quest for knowledge and understanding of her family’s history through the detailed two writings of Allan Sealy, The Trotternama and The Everest Hostel. The book’s several chapters explore different aspects of the dilemma of identity formation among the Anglo-Indian community, a non-homogenous group, during the colonial and post-colonial eras. The usage of conventional and unconventional sources by the authors and an understanding of the Anglo-Indian identity in India and the diaspora have given a unique dimension to the book. Every chapter of this book is thought-provoking and encourages detailed studies of the Anglo-Indian Community.
反映在不同形式的艺术、文学、电影和表演中的盎格鲁-印度社区。该部分的第一篇文章由Shyamasri Maji撰写，讨论了盎格鲁-印度人身份所反映的社区家庭意识的变化。马吉还探讨了几个世界社会政治事件是如何影响英印移民的观点的，正如在选定的文学作品中所呼应的那样。Merin Simi Raj和Avishek Parui的文章使用了“身份消费”的概念，并在讨论Johny Miranda翻译的马拉雅拉姆语小说时，强调了个人和集体记忆的记忆如何帮助喀拉拉邦Paranki社区的身份形成。Sreya Ann Oommen在1954年后对Mahe的印法裔家庭的研究表明，这个群体的身份、历史和文化是如何被误认和误解的，并在这个群体中传播了一种排斥和沮丧的感觉。Glenn D 'Cruz的文章使用非文本艺术形式来研究盎格鲁-印第安人的身份和文化。通过运用民族志和多媒体表演的方法论，D’cruz解读了归属和身份的问题。这本书的最后一章由杰德·弗内斯撰写，通过艾伦·西利的两篇详细著作《鹿特马》和《珠穆朗玛峰旅馆》，突出了他对她家族历史的知识和理解的追求。本书的几个章节探讨了殖民和后殖民时期非同质群体盎格鲁-印度社区身份形成困境的不同方面。作者对传统和非常规资料的使用，以及对印度和散居海外的盎格鲁-印度人身份的理解，赋予了本书独特的维度。这本书的每一章都发人深省，并鼓励对盎格鲁-印度社区进行详细的研究。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-02DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2023.2168887
Irene Silveira
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Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2023.2168885
Pragya Sengupta
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2022.2164429
Rohit K. Dasgupta, Churnjeet Mahn
ABSTRACT This article draws on existing interviews and creative material from LGBTQ + South Asians who have lived and spent significant time in the UK as part of the Cross Border Queers project. It begins by considering creative forms of diasporic activism and creativity in the UK that have emerged from South Asian LGBTQ + communities and individuals. We discuss the ways in which South Asian LGBTQ + diasporic organising was formed through a sense of shared racial and class solidarity and especially under the umbrella of political Blackness. We then move on to the role played by cultural activism to see how artists have used culture as a way to advance social change and increase the visibility of South Asian LGBTQ + communities in the UK. We place different genres of visual culture, curation, performance and oral history to evoke how South Asian queer migrants articulate a distinct form of subjectivity and aesthetic practice.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2023.2168883
Shailendra Yenkanah, Ansurie Pillay, Nita Rughoonundun-Chellapermal, N. Govender
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the role of extension schools in maintaining ancestral languages, specifically Telugu, a minority language in multilingual Mauritius. Extension schools are voluntarily run outside school hours and complement mainstream education. However, in the Mauritian context, these schools focus on Indian languages, which were introduced to Mauritius by indentured labourers in the 1800s who now comprise the majority of the population. The extension schools aim to preserve ancestral languages and cultures and to avoid language and culture loss, as Indian languages were, until recently, not taught in schools. This study aims to define extension schools and their operations and analyse how teaching and learning in extension schools have functioned in language and culture maintenance in multilingual Mauritius. Using a qualitative approach, data were generated through semi-structured interviews with three teachers of Telugu who have been both students and teachers in extension schools and from document analysis of available records.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2022.2129645
S. Pillai
ABSTRACT This paper traces the multi-dimensional aspects to South Indian coolie life in nineteenth and early twentieth century Malaya to interject into decades of scholarship that has trained on a homogenous focus on plantation fieldwork. In search of the nuances of diasporic diversity, I located three memoirs written by European planters of the Malayan plantocracy, set in rubber plantations and selected primarily for their reflections of South Indian coolie life from various socio-cultural angles. My reading of the three memoirs uncovered a host of various micro-narratives surrounding South Indians in the plantation, including references to cattle rearing, legacies of ancient ayurveda practices as well as the participatory communal network between coolie women as wage earners, wives, midwives and mothers. I conclude by arguing that such a host of eclectic tones can effectively bring other stories, to the surface and dismantle monotonous perceptions of South Indian coolie life in Malaya.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2022.2153212
Jinat Hossain
ABSTRACT The paper explores the factors that cause female labour migration to the Gulf states from Bangladesh. Grounded on Amartya Sen’s concept of well-being in terms of capability and Marta Nussbaum’s further interpretation on that, the paper focuses on the cases of Bangladeshi returned and intended female domestic workers and analyses the factors influencing the decision of transnational labour migration. The study follows a qualitative method including in-depth semi-structured interviews, coupled with some focus group discussions, participant observation, and secondary data analysis. The paper unveils different external and internal factors influencing women’s decision on migration. Global demand for female domestic workers and caregivers is rising in many nations. In response to that, many countries including Bangladesh have relaxed restrictions on women’s transnational labour migration and facilitate their involvement in the global care industry. Furthermore, socio-economic, and personal drivers play a role for migrating to the Gulf states.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2022.2153211
J. P. Coelho
ABSTRACT This article discusses the implications of a landmark judgement of Delhi High Court on 22 December 2010 which declared that Tibetans born in India between 1959 and 1987 were eligible for Indian citizenship. A majority of Tibetans in India steadfastly refuse to avail of this facility as a mark of patriotism to their fatherland Tibetan. The Tibetan Exile Government’s discouragement of Tibetans acquiring Indian citizenship needs to be understood as apprehensions based on erroneous conflation of citizenship with nationality. Drawing from ethnographic interactions with Tibetan Bhutias from Darjeeling and Kalimpong in West Bengal, who have always been Indian citizens, as well as Tibetan nomads in Ladakh, I argue that for Tibetans in India the choices of aspiring for citizenship or retaining refugee status are pragmatic, contingent ones as they navigate through bureaucracies, lived realities of their lives in India and their aspirations as Tibetans.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2022.2150408
Rizwana Yousaf
ABSTRACT With growing concern in the lives of individuals and communities during COVID-19, there is growing consensus across the globe that the pandemic had a disproportionate impact on different segments of society. It is of pertinent significance to understand the differential impact of pandemic on diverse groups. The concept of ‘intersectional vulnerability’ has been used in this paper to understand the unequal impact of the pandemic. Using an intersectional lens of ethnicity, this paper aims to understand the lived experiences of South Asian key workers’ family members (women) during the COVID-19 lockdowns through narratives of precarity and vulnerability, this study brings out the challenges faced by families of key workers. Vulnerable family members’ fear, stress, economic pressures, persistent inequalities in society, and gendered experiences shape the narratives of these families. The pandemic exacerbated existing precarious positions of families by creating a situation where ethnic inequality and inequitable gendered impacts were further reinforced.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2022.2136125
M. Pandurang
have helped us understand how PIOs in the West constitute one of the thriving communities. The third section focuses on the global dimensions of political integration. The first chapter focuses on the ideological hybridity between what the author calls ‘Diasporic Hindutva’ and radical right in the USA and UK. The next chapter focuses on sending state strategies to mobilise its diaspora. It studies the Overseas Citizenship of Indiaa quasi-citizenship offered by the Government of India (GOI) to PIOs to inculcate a sense of indebtedness and, in the process, shape the contours of belonging. The last chapter in this section focuses on differences within the Indo-Caribbean ethnic group and its impact on political integration. The chapter compares Trinidad, Guyana, and Suriname to argue that the degree of ethnic loyalty and level of integration varies significantly among them and attributes the same to political history, colonial background, and even natural resources/geographical factors. The analysis of the support for ‘right’ policies among ‘Diasporic Hindutva’ would have benefitted by examining whether supporting ‘right’ could be seen as a way to navigate inclusion/ integration in the host society marked by racial hierarchy. A comparison with the Jewish diaspora, also regarded as successful, could have further enriched the chapter. The second chapter’s analysis regarding India’s overseas citizenship could have benefitted by elaborating on how through these strategies, the scalar hierarchy of state power that gets reflected beyond the territorial boundary defines belonging for its diasporic population. The last chapter, like the previous chapters, restricts it to the respective national social field. An interrogation of whether the intensity of exchange/contact with their homeland influences group solidarity and their respective integration strategies cum level of integration would have been insightful. Next, the proliferation of PIOs globally marks an expansion in India’s Kin-Statesa theme that this volume doesn’t discuss much. However, as the recent turn of events from Canada to the UK shows, mobilising for homeland issues in the host countries by PIOs could have implications for Indian foreign policy, thereby complicating the bilateral relationship. To conclude, the book’s focus on the groupist integration of PIOs challenges the dominant individual-centric assimilationist paradigm prevalent in western society that equates society and the state. The book has successfully managed to question the melting pot paradigm that requires absolute assimilation to the host state society and views ethnicity and transnational ties as impediments to successful integration. Therefore, this book offers an interesting read to anyone interested in navigating the complexities of the political integration of immigrant communities in their host society.
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