Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home

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John Wiley & Sons, Jul 22, 2011 - Social Science - 304 pages
Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947.
  • The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia.
  • The first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent.
  • Investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947.
  • Draws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research.
  • Makes a distinctive contribution to debates about home, identity, hybridity, migration and diaspora.
 

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Contents

List of Figures
Imperial Domesticity and National Identity
Domesticating Identity and Embodying
AngloIndian Homelands
AngloIndian Resettlement in Britain
AngloIndians
PostImperial Domesticity and National
Conclusions
Appendix 2
Bibliography
Index
Copyright

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Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home
Alison Blunt
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Alison Blunt
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Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home
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Common terms and phrases

AIAIA All-India Anglo-Indian Association Anglo Anglo-Indian community Anglo-Indian Review Anglo-Indian women Archives Bangalore Bengali Britain Britain as fatherland Britain as home British India British Nationality Act British women Calcutta collective memory colonization and settlement Colonization Observer context culture decolonization Delhi Department of Immigration described diaspora discourses domiciled community domiciled in India embodied empire English Eurasian European Frank Anthony gendered geographies of home Gidney Henry Gidney Hindu HMAS Manoora home and identity homeland Ibid ideas identified imagined independent India India as home India as motherland Indian communities Indian women interviews living London Loreto Lucknow married McCluskieganj migrated to Australia migrated to Britain mixed descent mixed race mother multiculturalism nationalist nostalgia number of Anglo-Indians Pakistan particularly politics of home postcolonial racial Ranchi resettlement sari settlers social Society of Genealogists space spatial politics Studies told University Press western Western Australia White Australia Policy

About the author (2011)

Alison Blunt is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Travel, Gender and Imperialism (1994), the co-author of Dissident Geographies (2000), and the co-editor of Writing Women and Space (1994), Postcolonial Geographies (2002) and Cultural Geography in Practice (2003). She was awarded the Gill Memorial Award by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers in 2002 and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2003.

Bibliographic information

TitleDomicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home
RGS-IBG Book Series
AuthorAlison Blunt
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444399187, 9781444399189
Length304 pages
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