Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Johannes Hofer, Robert Hamilton and the Origins of a Nostalgia of the Marginalized

Contemporary Nostalgia and Its Discontented Scholarship

Homemaking, Domophilia and Diasporic Nostalgia

Chapter Outline

Notes

1 ‘Doubly Expatriated’

Maharajah Duleep Singh: A Life of Nostalgia and Rebellion

Nostalgia and the Legacy of Duleep Singh’s Life

Notes

2 A Teacher, a Factory Worker, and a ‘Battered’ Housewife

‘The Wrath of the Asian’: Altab Ali, Asian Dub Foundation and Claiming Tower Hamlets

‘A Village in Punjab’: Blair Peach and the Rebels of Southall

‘Better than No Cause at All’: Kiranjit Ahluwalia and the Nostalgic Communities of Sisterhood

Notes

3 Aloo-gobi, Mangoes and a Small Aubergine

Jhumpa Lahiri and the Piracy of Food

Nostalgia and Its Discontents – The Gendered Nature of Food Production

‘The Old Secrets Your Mother’s Mothers Knew’: Nostalgia for Food and a Matrilineal Inheritance

Memories of Food

Notes

4 ‘Straight from the Village’

Diasporic Heterotopias

Home and the World: Inside/Outside

‘No Place like It’: The South Asian Grocery Shop

Space Invaders

Food and Music – Examples of Critical Diasporic Heterotopias

Notes

5 Salaam, London

Bollywood and Nostalgia for the Future

Nostalgia beyond Borders

Bollywood, Nostalgia and Diasporic Dreaming

Diasporic Nostalgia, India, Pakistan and the Male Muslim Body

Diasporic Nostalgia and the Self-Referentiality of Bollywood

Notes

6 Making Yourself at Home

Nostalgia and the History of BBC Asian Broadcasting

Going ‘Old Skool’: Nostalgia and the BBC Asian Network

Nostalgia and Diasporic Asian Broadcasting: Psychoraag and Salaam Namaste

Notes

Conclusion

‘The Return of the Prodigal’: Nostalgic Returnings in Anil’s Ghost and The Hungry Tide

A Radical Hermeneutics of Nostalgia

Notes

Bibliography

Index