Indians in Singapore 1819-1945 : diaspora in the colonial port city
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Indians in Singapore 1819-1945 : diaspora in the colonial port city
Oxford University Press, 2014
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Description based on: 3rd impression, 2015
Bibliography: p. [297]-313
Includes index
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Indians in Singapore, 1819 -1945 is the first comprehensive study of the Indian diaspora in colonial Singapore. Drawing on administrative archives, intelligence reports, observer accounts, newspapers, oral testimonies, and community-based records, the book provides a meticulous historical account of the formation of the diaspora in the colonial port-city, and its socio-political, religious and cultural development from the advent of British colonial rule to
the end of the Japanese occupation. Indians in Singapore examines how the conditions of living as a minority in a multi-ethnic port-city; changes in colonial ideologies, administration and economy; developments in information-communication technologies; and transnational religious and socio-political currents
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, shaped Indian identity formations. What emerges is a fascinating account of how these Indian emigrants, by virtue of their unique vantage point in a frontier settlement that transformed into a metropolis of global significance, negotiated their position vis-a-vis the powers at hand and external processes in motion. In doing so, it reveals the distinct and complex nature of the historical journey of Indian migrants in the urban landscape of the
colonial port-city - an aspect of diaspora studies that has received little attention in erstwhile scholarship.
Table of Contents
- PART ONE: PIONEERS AT THE FRONTIER - 1819-1867
- PART TWO: DIASPORIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE AGE OF MASS MIGRATION - 1867-1941
- PART THREE: THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION & THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY
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