Domicile and diaspora : Anglo-Indian women and the spatial politics of home /

Drawing on interviews and archival research, this work investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blunt, Alison
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Series:RGS-IBG book series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Domicile and diaspora: an introduction
  • At home in British India: Imperial domesticity and national identity
  • Home, community and nation: domesticating identity and embodying modernity
  • Colonization and settlement: Anglo-Indian homelands
  • Independence and decolonization: Anglo-Indian Resettlement in Britain
  • Mixed descent, migration and multiculturalism: Anglo-Indians in Australia since 1947
  • At home in independent India: post-Imperial domesticity and national identity
  • Domicile and diaspora: conclusions.