Indian Diaspora: Socio-Cultural and Religious Worlds

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Contents

List of Figures, Graphs and Tables

List of Contributors

1 Introduction: Socio-Religious and Cultural World of the Indian Diaspora

PART 1: Life in Indenture and Beyond

2 Reconstructing History through Oral Tradition: A Case Study of Indian Indentured Migrants

3 Songs of Abolition: Anti-Indentured Campaign in Early Twentieth Century India

4 ‘The World becomes Stranger, the Pattern more Complicated’: Culture, Identity and the Indo-Fijian Experience

5 Hyphenated Hindus: The Development of a Indo-Caribbean Identity

6 Constructing Hindu Worlds in Portugal: A Case Study from Lisbon

PART 2: Life under Apartheid and Beyond

7 Race, Representation and the Crisis of Democracy in South Africa

8 Gujarati Muslim Diaspora and the Politics of Home in Apartheid South Africa

9 Changing Caste Identities in the Indian Diaspora: A South African Perspective

10 Interfaith Marriages and Marital Stability amongst the Indian Diaspora in the Durban Metropolitan Area, South Africa

11 The South African Indian Muslim Community and Its Role in Responding to International Disasters

PART 3: Constructing Religious Institutions in the Diaspora

12 Changing Funerary Practices of the Tamil Hindus in Singapore

13 The Materiality of Diasporic Identity: Hindu Temples in Trinidad and Malaysia

14 Spaces of Religious, Social and Cultural Interaction of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims in the United Kingdom

15 Representing Identity through Gurdwaras: Sikh Community in Nanaimo, British Columbia

16 Indian Muslims and Mosque Construction in Australia

17 In Retrospect: Some Theoretical Observations on the Socio-Cultural and Religious World of the Indian Diaspora

Index