Overview
- Brings together leading scholars in Anglo-Indian Studies from India and the diaspora to represent the global scholarly community
- Contributes to new theoretical directions in Identity Studies, exploring Anglo-Indianness in terms of other hybrid or fluid identities
- Interweaves historic and contemporary issues, media representations and autoethnographies, and methodological and theoretical work for a holistic view at the field
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About this book
Revisionist in approach, global in scope, and a seminal contribution to scholarship, this original and thought-provoking book critiques traditional notions about Anglo-Indians, a mixed descent minority community from India. It interrogates traditional notions about Anglo-Indian identity from a range of disciplines, perspectives and locations. This work situates itself as a transnational intermediary, identifying convergences and bridging scholarship on Anglo-Indian studies in India and the diaspora. Anglo-Indian identity is presented as hybridised and fluid and is seen as being representative, performative, affective and experiential through different interpretative theoretical frameworks and methodologies. Uniquely, this book is an international collaborative effort by leading scholars in Anglo-Indian Studies, and examines the community in India and diverse diasporic locations such as New Zealand, Britain, Australia, Pakistan and Burma.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Identities: Historical
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Identities in Contemporary India
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Diasporic Identities
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Gendered Identities
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Identities in the Arts: Literature, Film and Performance
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Robyn Andrews is Senior Lecturer in the Social Anthropology Programme at Massey University, New Zealand. She published Christmas in Calcutta: Anglo-Indian Stories and Essays (2014) and writes articles and book chapters for both academic and community publications. She is an editor of the International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies.
Merin Simi Raj (PhD, IIT Bombay) is Assistant Professor in English at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Faculty Coordinator, Memory Studies Research Network IIT Madras (along with Dr Avishek Parui). She also works on Historiography studies and Digital Humanities, and recently completed a project on the Anglo-Indian community.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anglo-Indian Identity
Book Subtitle: Past and Present, in India and the Diaspora
Editors: Robyn Andrews, Merin Simi Raj
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64458-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64457-4Published: 18 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64460-4Published: 19 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64458-1Published: 17 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 439
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Migration, Media and Communication