"Reconstructs exchanges and interactions among networks of expatriate Indian and American authors as they struggled in similar yet distinct ways for an anticolonial future, attempting to reimagine and reshape the relationship between the U.S. and India during and immediately fol…
"How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent an…
Making the desi scene in New York.
"Presents a comprehensive overview of the role of women in Burmese society from independence in 1948 to the present. It covers women in politics, women writers, working women, marginalised women such as prostitutes, and women's role in the 1940s as freedom fighters and since 198…
"Presents a comprehensive overview of the role of women in Burmese society from independence in 1948 to the present. It covers women in politics, women writers, working women, marginalised women such as prostitutes, and women's role in the 1940s as freedom fighters and since 198…
Introduction: marking a place in history -- Choosing to leave -- Rising above or hitting the glass ceiling? -- Leaning in and reaching out- personal networks and political processes -- Merging histories: charting feminist journeys in the US and India -- Learning from the past an…
This work of historical sociology revisits and analyses the earlier part of the Third Republic (1870-1914), when France granted citizenship rights to Indians in Pondicherry. It explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons with British India, especiall…
by Vora, Neha
fromE-Duke books scholarly collection
Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai's huge construction boom. They now comprise its largest noncitizen population. Though many migrant familie…
"Trinidadian sitarist, composer, and music authority, Mangal Patasar once remarked about t♯¿n-singing, 'You take a capsule from India, leave it here for a hundred years, and this is what you get.' Patasar was referring to what may be the most sophisticated and distinctive art fo…
