"India Abroad" analyzes the development of Indian diasporas in
the United States and England from 1947, the year of Indian
independence, to the present. Across different spheres of
culture--festivals, entrepreneurial enclaves, fiction,
autobiography, newspapers, music, and film--migrants have created
India as a way to negotiate life in the multicultural United States
and Britain. Sandhya Shukla considers how Indian diaspora has
become a contact zone for various formations of identity and
discourses of nation. She suggests that carefully reading the
production of a diasporic sensibility, one that is not simply an
outgrowth of the nation-state, helps us to conceive of multiple
imaginaries, of America, England, and India, as articulated to one
another. Both the connections and disconnections among peoples who
see themselves as in some way Indian are brought into sharp focus
by this comparativist approach.
This book provides a unique combination of rich ethnographic
work and textual readings to illuminate the theoretical concerns
central to the growing fields of diaspora studies and transnational
cultural studies. Shukla argues that the multi-sitedness of
diaspora compels a rethinking of time and space in anthropology, as
well as in other disciplines. Necessarily, the standpoint of global
belonging and citizenship makes the boundaries of the "America" in
American studies a good deal more porous. And in dialogue with
South Asian studies and Asian American studies, this book situates
postcolonial Indian subjectivity within migrants' transnational
recastings of the meanings of race and ethnicity. Interweaving
conceptual and material understandings of diaspora, India Abroad
finds that in constructed Indias, we can see the contradictions of
identity and nation that are central to the globalized condition in
which all peoples, displaced and otherwise, live.
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