Indians in Singapore, 1819-1945
Diaspora in the Colonial Port-city
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 2 October 2014
- ISBN 9780198099291
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 223x144x28 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Indians in Singapore, 1819 -1945 is the first comprehensive study of the Indian diaspora in colonial Singapore. 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.
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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-à-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.
I found Rai's book incisive, informative and analytical. It whets the appetite for a sequel, from 1945 to the present.
Table of Contents:
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Pioneers at the Frontier - 1819-1867
1: Merchants, minions and the military
2: In the poly-ethnic world of the port city
Part Two: Diasporic Transformations in the Age of Mass Migration - 1867-1941
3: The diaspora reconstituted
4: Repression, reform, rebellion
5: Diasporic formations in the inter-war years
Part Three: The Japanese Occupation & the Indian National Army
6: Imperatives of the new order
7: The price of freedom
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
