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Indians and the antipodes : Networks, boundaries, and circulation / edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Jane Buckingham.

Contributor(s): Publisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: ix, 318 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199483624
  • 0199483620
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 993.004 BAN 23
LOC classification:
  • DU424.5.E27 I53 2018
Contents:
Table of contents Introduction/ Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Jane Buckingham 1. Identity and Invisibility: Early Indian Presence in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1769-1850/ Todd Nachowitz 2. Circuitous Routes: Journeys from India to Australia by way of the sugar colonies/ Margaret Allen 3. Naming Charlie: Inscribing British Indian Identities in White Australia, 1901-1940/Kama Maclean 4. Indian Migration to New Zealand in the 1920s: Deciphering the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1920/ Michael Roche and Sita Venkateswar 5. Totaram Sanadhya's Experience of Racism in early White Australia (a transcreated narrative)/Purushottama Bilimoria 6. 'Not as a Stranger or a Tourist': Leonora Gmeiner and the First Girls' School in Delhi/ Devleena Ghosh and Heather Goodall 7. 'Did you know your great grandmother was an Indian Princess?': Early Anglo-Indian arrivals in New Zealand/ Robyn Andrews 8. 'A Rich Tapestry': The Life and Heritage of Sir Anand Satyanand/ Jacqueline Leckie 9. Class and Caste Consciousness: The Narratives of Indian Sub-continental Diaspora in Australia/Amit Sarwal 10. Negotiating Indianness: Auckland's Shifting Cultural Festivities/ Alison Booth ? About the Editors and Contributors Index
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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Table of contents
Introduction/ Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Jane Buckingham
1. Identity and Invisibility: Early Indian Presence in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1769-1850/ Todd Nachowitz

2. Circuitous Routes: Journeys from India to Australia by way of the sugar colonies/ Margaret Allen
3. Naming Charlie: Inscribing British Indian Identities in White Australia, 1901-1940/Kama Maclean
4. Indian Migration to New Zealand in the 1920s: Deciphering the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1920/ Michael Roche and Sita Venkateswar
5. Totaram Sanadhya's Experience of Racism in early White Australia (a transcreated narrative)/Purushottama Bilimoria
6. 'Not as a Stranger or a Tourist': Leonora Gmeiner and the First Girls' School in Delhi/ Devleena Ghosh and Heather Goodall
7. 'Did you know your great grandmother was an Indian Princess?': Early Anglo-Indian arrivals in New Zealand/ Robyn Andrews
8. 'A Rich Tapestry': The Life and Heritage of Sir Anand Satyanand/ Jacqueline Leckie
9. Class and Caste Consciousness: The Narratives of Indian Sub-continental Diaspora in Australia/Amit Sarwal 10. Negotiating Indianness: Auckland's Shifting Cultural Festivities/ Alison Booth ?
About the Editors and Contributors
Index

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.