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Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home

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August 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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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

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