{"product_id":"domicile-and-diaspora-9781405100557","title":"Domicile and Diaspora","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDomicile and Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInvestigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMakes a distinctive contribution to debates about home, identity, hybridity, migration and diaspora.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘This is a first rate book. Alison Blunt studies a community that has been reinventing ‘itself’, and its senses of home and belonging, in the period since 1947. She shows how these reinventions have been pursued in different ways by different community leaders, including in the run-up to India’s independence, and how another set of reinventions is playing out around the dress and marriage choices of Anglo-Indian women.’\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStuart Corbridge, Professor\/Doctor Geography \u0026amp; Regional Studies, London School of Economics\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Alison Blunt has defined and shaped this research area. Perceptive accounts of Anglo-Indian women's lives are woven through a scholarly analysis of community and identity in India and a wider diaspora through the twentieth century. She has produced an absorbing and refreshing book.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMorag Bell, Professor of Cultural Geography, Loughborough University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is an accessible and clearly written book and would be useful for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses on cultural and postcolonial geographies\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Geographical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Alison Blunt's latest offering \u003ci\u003eDomicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home\u003c\/i\u003e provides a rich and flavourful repast of the betwixt and in-between people of part-British and part-Indian descent... Blunt delivers a cogent, deeply historicized, and creatively theorized account of the cultural and spatial contours of Anglo-Indian domesticity.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Black Canadian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures. \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Domicile and Diaspora: An Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDomicile.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHome, Memory and Nostalgia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethodology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Outline.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 At Home in British India: Imperial Domesticity and National Identity\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImperial Domesticity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNationalist Domesticity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDomicile and Domesticity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Land of our Mothers’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHome, Identity and Nationality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Home, Community and Nation: Domesticating Identity and Embodying\u003c\/b\u003e Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDomesticating Identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmbodying Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDomestic Transgression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHome, Community and Nation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Colonization and Settlement: Anglo-Indian Homelands\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomelands and Settlements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnglo-Indian Colonization and Settlement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColonizing McCluskieganj.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnglo-Indian Home-making.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDreams of the Future.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMcCluskieganj Today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Independence and Decolonization: Anglo-Indian Resettlement in Britain\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigration and Resettlement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBritishness, Whiteness and Mixed Descent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocumenting Paternity and Recolonizing Identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnsettled Domesticity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmbodied Identities and the Limits of Familiarity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Mixed Descent, Migration and Multiculturalism: Anglo-Indians in Australia since 1947\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnglo-Indians in White Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHMAS Manoora.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnglo-Indian Migration in the Wake of HMAS Manoora.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom ‘Race’ to ‘Culture’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom White Australia to Multiculturalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnglo-Indians in Multicultural Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 At Home in Independent India: Post-Imperial Domesticity and National Identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStaying on in India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNationality and Community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnglo-Indian Women in Independent India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDress.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHome and Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarriage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Domicile and Diaspora: Conclusions\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 1 Archival Sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 2 Interviews and Focus Groups.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407834718551,"sku":"9781405100557","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405100557.jpg?v=1730500684","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/domicile-and-diaspora-9781405100557","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}