TY - BOOK AU - Jayaram, N. ed. TI - Diversities in the Indian diaspora: : nature, implications, responses SN - 9780198090359 U1 - 304.80954 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford Univ. Press KW - East Indian diaspora-Congresses N1 - LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES FOREWORD BY PETER RONALD DESOUZA IPREFACE LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 1. INTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITIES IN THE INDIAN DIASPORA, N. JAYARAM PART I: DIASPORA FROM AN INDIAN STATE: PUNJAB 2. DIVERSITY WITHIN THE PUNJABI DIASPORA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONHOOD, PARAMJIT S. JUDGE 3. FROM PRODUCT TO PROCESS: SIKHS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, RAVINDRA K. JAIN ; PART II: DIVERSITY IN THE DIASPORA LOCALE 4. INTEGRATION, ASSIMILATION, OR MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: THE CASE OF THE MALAYSIAN INDIAN DIASPORA, T. MARIMUTHU 5. STATE POLICIES AND THE INDIAN DIASPORA IN MALAYSIA, AMIT KUMAR MISHRA 6. INDIA-IN-DIASPORA: A MAURITIAN PERSPECTIVE,VINESH Y. HOOKOOMSING 7. LOCALITY AND IDENTITY IN THE INDIAN DIASPORA: REINVENTION OF REGIONAL/LINGUISTIC DIVERSITIES IN MAURITIUS, CHANDRASHEKHAR BHAT AND T.L.S. BHASKAR 8. THE INDIAN COMMUNITIES IN OVERSEAS TERRITORIES OF FRANCE: PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY AND CULTURE, J.C. SHARMA PART III: CASE STUDIES OF DIASPORIC COMMUNITIES 9. IDENTITY, ETHNICITY, AND MARGINALIZATION: THE COCHINI JEWS IN ISRAEL, GINU ZACHARIA OOMMEN ; 10. EXPLORING THE GLOBAL JAIN DIASPORA, PRAKASH C. JAIN 11. DIASPORA: A MIRROR TO INDIAN DIVERSITY? CASTE, BRAHMANISM, AND THE NEW DIASPORA, KAMALA GANESH PART IV: GENDER AND IDENTITY IN THE DIASPORA 12. UNDERSTANDING GENDER DIVERSITIES IN THE INDIAN DIASPORA, APARNA RAYAPROL ; 13. IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN THE DIASPORA, VIJAY AGNEW PART V: INDIA AND THE INDIAN DIASPORA 14. HETEROGENEOUS DIASPORA AND ASYMMETRICAL ORIENTATIONS: INDIA, INDIANS, AND THE INDIAN DIASPORA, N. JAYARAM ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS N2 - This volume examines the notion of 'diversity' in the context of diasporic communities such as Punjabis, Tamils, Jains, and Indian Jews. It also discusses issues of gender, identity, religious, caste, regional, and linguistic associations, and diasporic perceptions of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' ER -