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Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora (Hardcover)
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Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora (Hardcover)
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South Asia's diaspora is among the world's largest and most
widespread, and it is growing exponentially. In 2001, the
government of India estimated that 20 million persons of Indian
descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots to other
countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri
Lanka. There are three million South Asians in the UK and
approximately the same number resides in North America. South
Asians are an extremely significant presence in Southeast Asia and
Africa, and increasingly visible in the Middle East. This
inter-disciplinary Handbook on the South Asian diaspora brings
together contributions by leading scholars and rising stars on
different aspects of its history, anthropology and geography, as
well as its contemporary political and socio-cultural implications.
The Handbook situates the contemporary diaspora firmly within an
historical context. South Asians have travelled abroad for many
reasons, in many guises, to many destinations for many centuries.
The first section of the Handbook provides a historically grounded
analysis of these movements of people. It includes chapters on the
following themes: mobile South Asians in the early-modern world,
diaspora and Empire, and the diaspora in the age of nation states.
The second part of the Handbook centres on politics, culture and
identity in the South Asian diaspora, thus offering the reader an
overview on transnational politics and economics, culture in the
diaspora and the socio-cultural impact of the South Asian diaspora
on the countries where they have settled. This much needed and
pioneering venture provides an invaluable reference work for
students, scholars and policy makers world wide interested in South
Asian Studies.
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