Domicile and Diaspora

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.

Autorentext
Alison Blunt is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Travel, Gender and Imperialism (1994), the co-author of Dissident Geographies (2000), and the co-editor of Writing Women and Space (1994), Postcolonial Geographies (2002) and Cultural Geography in Practice (2003). She was awarded the Gill Memorial Award by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers in 2002 and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2003.

Zusammenfassung
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.

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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