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Global South Asians Hardback -
by Judith M. Brown
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- Title Global South Asians
- Author Judith M. Brown
- Binding Hardback
- Edition 1st
- Condition New
- Pages 214
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press CUP
- Date pp. 214, 6 Maps
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6403987
- ISBN 9780521844567 / 0521844568
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects South Asian diaspora, South Asians - Migrations
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006299522
- Dewey Decimal Code 909.049
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Summary
By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century, many left reluctantly to seek economic opportunities which were lacking at home. This is the story of their often painful experiences in the diaspora, how they constructed new social communities overseas and how they maintained connections with the countries and the families they had left behind. It is a story compellingly told by one of the premier historians of modern South Asia, Judith Brown, whose particular knowledge of the diaspora in Britain and South Africa gives her insight as a commentator. This is a book which will have a broad appeal to general readers as well as to students of South Asian and colonial history, migration studies and sociology.