Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures.
Series Editors’ Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1 Domicile and Diaspora: An Introduction.
Domicile.
Diaspora.
Home, Memory and Nostalgia.
Methodology.
Chapter Outline.
2 At Home in British India: Imperial Domesticity and National Identity.
Imperial Domesticity.
Nationalist Domesticity.
Domicile and Domesticity.
‘Land of our Mothers’.
Home, Identity and Nationality.
Conclusions.
3 Home, Community and Nation: Domesticating Identity and Embodying Modernity.
Domesticating Identity.
Embodying Modernity.
Domestic Transgression.
Home, Community and Nation.
Conclusions.
4 Colonization and Settlement: Anglo-Indian Homelands.
Homelands and Settlements.
Anglo-Indian Colonization and Settlement.
Colonizing McCluskieganj.
Anglo-Indian Home-making.
Dreams of the Future.
McCluskieganj Today.
Conclusions.
5 Independence and Decolonization: Anglo-Indian Resettlement in Britain.
Migration and Resettlement.
Britishness, Whiteness and Mixed Descent.
Documenting Paternity and Recolonizing Identity.
Unsettled Domesticity.
Embodied Identities and the Limits of Familiarity.
Conclusions.
6 Mixed Descent, Migration and Multiculturalism: Anglo-Indians in Australia since 1947.
Anglo-Indians in White Australia.
HMAS Manoora.
Anglo-Indian Migration in the Wake of HMAS Manoora.
From ‘Race’ to ‘Culture’.
From White Australia to Multiculturalism.
Anglo-Indians in Multicultural Australia.
Conclusions.
7 At Home in Independent India: Post-Imperial Domesticity and National Identity.
Staying on in India.
Nationality and Community.
Anglo-Indian Women in Independent India.
Dress.
Home and Work.
Marriage.
Conclusions.
8 Domicile and Diaspora: Conclusions.
Bibliography.
Appendix 1 Archival Sources.
Appendix 2 Interviews and Focus Groups.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index
