Peter van der Veer and the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between South Asian nationalism, migration, ethnicity, and the construction of religious identity. Although nationality and diaspora seem to represent opposite ideas and values, the authors argue that nationalism is strengthened, even produced, by migration.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination
1. A Sikh Diaspora? Contested Identities and Constructed Realities
2. Bhakti and Postcolonial Politics: Hindu Missions to Fiji
3. Projecting Identities: Empire and Indentured Labor Migration from India to Trinidad and British Guiana, 1836-1885
4. Homeland, Motherland: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Ideologies of Place among Muslims in Trinidad
5. Hindus in Trinidad and Britain: Ethnic Religion, Reification, and the Politics of Public Space
6. New York City’s Muslim World Day Parade
7. Indian Immigrants in Queens, New York City: Patterns of Spatial Concentration and Distribution, 1965-1990
8. Gendering Diaspora: Space, Politics, and South Asian Masculinities in Britain. 197
9. New Cultural Forms and Transnational South Asian Women: Culture, Class, and Consumption among British Asian Women in the Diaspora
Contributors
Index
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