Indians in Singapore, 1819-1945
Diaspora in the Colonial Port-city
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19984748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rajesh Rai (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 332 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Indians in Singapore, 1819-1945 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198099291.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4251344736 |
| ISBN | 9780198099291 |
| Open Library | OL28534912M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
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 Japanese occupation. Indians in Singapore examines how the conditions of living as a minority in a multi-ethnic port-city; changes in colonial ideologies, administration and economy; developments in information-communication technologies; and transnational religious and socio-political currents in the late 19 and early 20th centuries, shaped Indian identity formations. What emerges is a fascinating account of how these Indian emigrants, by virtue of their unique vantage point in a frontier settlement that transformed into a metropolis of global significance, negotiated their position vis-à-vis the powers at hand and external processes in motion. In doing so, it reveals the distinct and complex nature of the historical journey of Indian migrants in the urban landscape of the colonial port city—an aspect of diaspora studies that has received little attention in erstwhile scholarship
Archaeology · Colonialism · Diaspora · Ethnology · Frontier · Geography · Identity (music) · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · East Indians · Indian National Army · Japanese Occupation of Singapore (1942-1945) fast (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01353450 · Singapore
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |