India and the Antipode: Networks, Boundaries and Circulation
This book looks at the history of Indian migrants in Australia and New Zealand over a period of two and a half centuries. It looks at the history of their migration, settlement and encounter with racism. However, this book is not just about the diaspora; it is also about circulation of ideas between the Antipodes and India, both being parts of the British Empire and the Commonwealth.
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India and the Antipode: Networks, Boundaries and Circulation
This book looks at the history of Indian migrants in Australia and New Zealand over a period of two and a half centuries. It looks at the history of their migration, settlement and encounter with racism. However, this book is not just about the diaspora; it is also about circulation of ideas between the Antipodes and India, both being parts of the British Empire and the Commonwealth.
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India and the Antipode: Networks, Boundaries and Circulation

India and the Antipode: Networks, Boundaries and Circulation

by Oxford University Press
India and the Antipode: Networks, Boundaries and Circulation

India and the Antipode: Networks, Boundaries and Circulation

by Oxford University Press

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Overview

This book looks at the history of Indian migrants in Australia and New Zealand over a period of two and a half centuries. It looks at the history of their migration, settlement and encounter with racism. However, this book is not just about the diaspora; it is also about circulation of ideas between the Antipodes and India, both being parts of the British Empire and the Commonwealth.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199483624
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 09/05/2018
Product dimensions: 8.70(w) x 5.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is professor of Asian history and director of the New Zealand India Research Institute at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Jane Buckingham teaches history at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Introduction/ Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Jane Buckingham1.. Identity and Invisibility: Early Indian Presence in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1769-1850/ Todd Nachowitz2.. Circuitous Routes: Journeys from India to Australia by way of the sugar colonies/ Margaret Allen3.. Naming Charlie: Inscribing British Indian Identities in White Australia, 1901-1940/Kama Maclean4.. Indian Migration to New Zealand in the 1920s: Deciphering the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1920/ Michael Roche and Sita Venkateswar5.. Totaram Sanadhya's Experience of Racism in early White Australia (a transcreated narrative)/Purushottama Bilimoria6.. 'Not as a Stranger or a Tourist': Leonora Gmeiner and the First Girls' School in Delhi/ Devleena Ghosh and Heather Goodall7.. 'Did you know your great grandmother was an Indian Princess?': Early Anglo-Indian arrivals in New Zealand/ Robyn Andrews8.. 'A Rich Tapestry': The Life and Heritage of Sir Anand Satyanand/ Jacqueline Leckie9.. Class and Caste Consciousness: The Narratives of Indian Sub-continental Diaspora in Australia/Amit Sarwal10.. Negotiating Indianness: Auckland's Shifting Cultural Festivities/ Alison BoothAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex
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