Mobilizing India ：Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad

Publication subTitle ：Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad

Author： Tejaswini Niranjana  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2006

E-ISBN: 9780822388425

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822338420

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822338284

Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology

Keyword： Women, East Indian -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- Social conditions., Women singers -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- Social conditions., Gender identity -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad., Women, East Indian -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- Ethnic identity., Women, East Indian -- Race identity -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad., Women -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- Social conditions., East Indians -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- Ethnic identity.

Language： ENG

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Description

Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad’s population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian, what “Indian” signifies—about nationalism, gender, culture, caste, race, and religion—in the Caribbean is different from what it means on the subcontinent. Yet the ways that “Indianness” is conceived of and performed in India and in Trinidad have historically been, and remain, intimately related. Offering an innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities “back home,” Tejaswini Niranjana models a necessary project: comparative research across the global South, scholarship that decenters the “first world” West as the referent against which postcolonial subjects understand themselves and are understood by others.

Niranjana draws on nineteenth-century travel narratives, anthropological and historical studies of Trinidad, Hindi film music, and the lyrics, performance, and reception of chutney-soca and calypso songs to argue that perceptions of Indian female sexuality in Trinidad have long been central to the formation and disruption of dominant narratives of nationhood, modernity, and normative sexuality in India. She illuminates debates in India about “the woman question” as they played out in the

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Acknowledgments

Note on Usage

Introduction

‘‘The Indian in Me’’: Studying the Subaltern Diaspora

‘‘Left to the Imagination’’:Indian Nationalism and Female Sexuality

‘‘Take a Little Chutney, Add a Touch of Kaiso’’: The Body in the Voice

Jumping out of Time: The ‘‘Indian’’ in Calypso

‘‘Suku Suku What Shall I Do?’’: Hindi Cinema and the Politics of Music

Afterword: A Semi-Lime

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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