Indian diaspora : socio-cultural and religious worlds /

Indian diaspora : socio-cultural and religious worlds /

The chapters presented in this volume represent a wide variety of Indian diasporic experiences. From indenture labour to the present day immigrations, Indian diasporic narrative is one that offers opportunities to evaluate afresh notions of ethnicity, race, caste, gender and religious diversity. Fro...

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Other Authors: Kumar, P. Pratap, 1952-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Brill, [2015]

Series: International Studies in Religion and Society 24.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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East Indian diaspora.
East Indians > Foreign countries > Social conditions.
East Indians > Foreign countries > Religion.

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Call Number: DS432.5 .I4958 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • P. Pratap Kumar
  • 1 Introduction: Socio-Religious and Cultural World of the Indian Diaspora /
  • P. Pratap Kumar
  • 2 Reconstructing History through Oral Tradition: A Case Study of Indian Indentured Migrants /
  • Archana Kumar and Ramnarayan Tiwari
  • 3 Songs of Abolition: Anti-Indentured Campaign in Early Twentieth Century India /
  • Ashutosh Kumar
  • 4 'The World becomes Stranger, the Pattern more Complicated': Culture, Identity and the Indo-Fijian Experience /
  • Brij V. Lal
  • 5 Hyphenated Hindus: The Development of a Indo-Caribbean Identity /
  • Prea Persaud
  • 6 Constructing Hindu Worlds in Portugal: A Case Study from Lisbon /
  • Inês Lourenço
  • 7 Race, Representation and the Crisis of Democracy in South Africa /
  • Nalini Moodley
  • 8 Gujarati Muslim Diaspora and the Politics of Home in Apartheid South Africa /
  • Thembisa Waetjen
  • 9 Changing Caste Identities in the Indian Diaspora: A South African Perspective /
  • Kalpana Hiralal
  • 10 Interfaith Marriages and Marital Stability amongst the Indian Diaspora in the Durban Metropolitan Area, South Africa /
  • Sultan Khan and Shanta B. Singh
  • 11 The South African Indian Muslim Community and Its Role in Responding to International Disasters /
  • S. Khan , A.K. Gabralla and A.F.M. Ebrahim
  • 12 Changing Funerary Practices of the Tamil Hindus in Singapore /
  • Siti Hazariah and Binte Abu Bakar
  • 13 The Materiality of Diasporic Identity: Hindu Temples in Trinidad and Malaysia /
  • Carolyn V. Prorok
  • 14 Spaces of Religious, Social and Cultural Interaction of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims in the United Kingdom /
  • Sharmina Mawani and Anjoom Mukudam
  • 15 Representing Identity through Gurdwaras: Sikh Community in Nanaimo, British Columbia /
  • P. Pratap Kumar
  • 16 Indian Muslims and Mosque Construction in Australia /
  • Goolam Vahed
  • 17 In Retrospect: Some Theoretical Observations on the Socio-Cultural and Religious World of the Indian Diaspora /
  • P. Pratap Kumar
  • Index /
  • P. Pratap Kumar.