Rajesh Rai
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajesh Rai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Rai |
| SIGNATURE | RAI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Indians in Singapore 1819–1945
PART ONE: PIONEERS AT THE FRONTIER - 1819-1867 PART TWO: DIASPORIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE AGE OF MASS MIGRATION - 1867-1941 PART THREE: THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION & THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY
In the Poly-Ethnic World of the Port City
Indians in Singapore, 1819-1945
Indians in Singapore, 1819 to 1945 studies 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…
The 1857 Panic and the Fabrication of an Indian 'Menace' in Singapore
This paper examines how local and transnational developments converged in 1857 to transform European attitudes towards Indian inhabitants in Singapore. Recognized in preceding years as useful to the security and the development of the colony, by late 1857, Indians in Singapore had come to be viewed by Europeans as a 'menace'. That change in disposition was largely the product of factors extraneous to the actions of the local Indian inhabitants th…
Religion and the South Asian diaspora
In the expansive manner in which ‘diaspora’ has come to be employed, the centrality of religion in the ‘classical’ understanding of the concept has been subsumed under categories such as ‘ethnicity’ and ‘culture’. Yet even as religious practices and beliefs undergo transformation in the diaspora, studies of South Asian emigrant groups show that religion remains a key marker of community identity – its pivotal role invigorated by the contemporary …
Homogenisation and fragmentation, inclusivism and exclusivism in the development of Hinduism in Singapore
Alongside identification with these categories, scholars have provided evidence of the advance of a ‘homogenised Hinduism’, which has underplayed differences between groups. Through a study of the historical development of Hinduism in Singapore, this article posits that evolving tensions between exclusive and inclusive community structures have had reverberations that problematise the notion of a simplistic linear move from plurality to homogenis…
The South Asian Diaspora
Introduction Rajesh Rai and Peter Reeves Part 1: Transnational Networks 1. Ethnicity, locality and circulation in two diasporic merchant networks from South Asia Claude Markovits 2. The social world of Gujarati merchants and their Indian Ocean networks in the seventeenth century Murari Kumar Jha 3. Subaltern networks in a colonial diaspora: a study of Indian migrants and Mauritius Marina Carter 4. An entrepreneurial diaspora? Transnational space …
Race’ and the construction of the North–South divide amongst Indians in colonial Malaya and Singapore
10.1080/1479027042000236652
Sepoys, Convicts and the ‘Bazaar’ Contingent
The article studies migrants from Uttar Pradesh in Singapore who have historically identified themselves as ‘Hindustani’ – a group that has largely been ignored in historical literature of the Indian diaspora in Singapore. Through an examination of British expansion in India in the early nineteenth century, parallel developments in Southeast Asia, community publications and oral testimonies, the article attempts to ‘(re)discover’ the history of H…
Sepoys, Convicts and the ‘Bazaar’ Contingent
The article studies migrants from Uttar Pradesh in Singapore who have historically identified themselves as ‘Hindustani’ – a group that has largely been ignored in historical literature of the Indian diaspora in Singapore. Through an examination of British expansion in India in the early nineteenth century, parallel developments in Southeast Asia, community publications and oral testimonies, the article attempts to ‘(re)discover’ the history of H…
The 1857 Panic and the Fabrication of an Indian 'Menace' in Singapore
This paper examines how local and transnational developments converged in 1857 to transform European attitudes towards Indian inhabitants in Singapore. Recognized in preceding years as useful to the security and the development of the colony, by late 1857, Indians in Singapore had come to be viewed by Europeans as a 'menace'. That change in disposition was largely the product of factors extraneous to the actions of the local Indian inhabitants th…
Race’ and the construction of the North–South divide amongst Indians in colonial Malaya and Singapore
10.1080/1479027042000236652
Indians in Singapore 1819–1945
PART ONE: PIONEERS AT THE FRONTIER - 1819-1867 PART TWO: DIASPORIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE AGE OF MASS MIGRATION - 1867-1941 PART THREE: THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION & THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY
Race’ and the construction of the North–South divide amongst Indians in colonial Malaya and Singapore
10.1080/1479027042000236652
Sepoys, Convicts and the ‘Bazaar’ Contingent
The article studies migrants from Uttar Pradesh in Singapore who have historically identified themselves as ‘Hindustani’ – a group that has largely been ignored in historical literature of the Indian diaspora in Singapore. Through an examination of British expansion in India in the early nineteenth century, parallel developments in Southeast Asia, community publications and oral testimonies, the article attempts to ‘(re)discover’ the history of H…
The South Asian Diaspora
Introduction Rajesh Rai and Peter Reeves Part 1: Transnational Networks 1. Ethnicity, locality and circulation in two diasporic merchant networks from South Asia Claude Markovits 2. The social world of Gujarati merchants and their Indian Ocean networks in the seventeenth century Murari Kumar Jha 3. Subaltern networks in a colonial diaspora: a study of Indian migrants and Mauritius Marina Carter 4. An entrepreneurial diaspora? Transnational space …
Homogenisation and fragmentation, inclusivism and exclusivism in the development of Hinduism in Singapore
Alongside identification with these categories, scholars have provided evidence of the advance of a ‘homogenised Hinduism’, which has underplayed differences between groups. Through a study of the historical development of Hinduism in Singapore, this article posits that evolving tensions between exclusive and inclusive community structures have had reverberations that problematise the notion of a simplistic linear move from plurality to homogenis…
Religion and the South Asian diaspora
In the expansive manner in which ‘diaspora’ has come to be employed, the centrality of religion in the ‘classical’ understanding of the concept has been subsumed under categories such as ‘ethnicity’ and ‘culture’. Yet even as religious practices and beliefs undergo transformation in the diaspora, studies of South Asian emigrant groups show that religion remains a key marker of community identity – its pivotal role invigorated by the contemporary …
The 1857 Panic and the Fabrication of an Indian 'Menace' in Singapore
This paper examines how local and transnational developments converged in 1857 to transform European attitudes towards Indian inhabitants in Singapore. Recognized in preceding years as useful to the security and the development of the colony, by late 1857, Indians in Singapore had come to be viewed by Europeans as a 'menace'. That change in disposition was largely the product of factors extraneous to the actions of the local Indian inhabitants th…
In the Poly-Ethnic World of the Port City
Indians in Singapore, 1819-1945
Indians in Singapore, 1819 to 1945 studies 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…
Indians in Singapore 1819–1945
PART ONE: PIONEERS AT THE FRONTIER - 1819-1867 PART TWO: DIASPORIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE AGE OF MASS MIGRATION - 1867-1941 PART THREE: THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION & THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY
History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (7 works) · Diaspora (6 works) · Asian Studies and History (5 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works)