Community, Empire and Migration

CRISPIN BATES is Senior Lecturer in South Asian History at the Department of History, University of Edinburgh. His publications include Subalterns and the Raj: A History of Modern India.

• List of Tables and Figures List of Maps Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Community and Identity Among South Asians in Diaspora; C.Bates 'They Cannot Represent Themselves': Threats to Difference and So-Called Community Politics in Fiji from 1936-47; J.D.Kelly Nested Identities: Ethnicity, Community and the Nature of Group Conflict in Mauritius; A.Nave The Development of Communalism among East African Asians; M.Twaddle Imagining? Ethnic Identity and Indians in South Africa; R.K.Thiara Migration, Migrant Communities and Otherness in Twentieth Century Sinhala Nationalism in Sri Lanka (up to Independence); N.Wickramasinghe Sojourners and Settlers: South Indians and Communal Identity in Malaysia; A.Kaur Communitarian Identities and the Private Sphere: A Gender Dialogue amongst Indo-Trinidadians (1845-1917); S.Chatterjee Hyderabadis in Pakistan: Changing Nations; K.Leonard Mohajirs in Pakistan: A Case of Nativisation of Migrants; M.Waseem Bridging the Gulf: Migration, Modernity and Identity among Muslims in Mumbai; T.B.Hansen Relationships between Muslims and Hindus in the United States: Mlecchas vs Kafirs?; A.T.Mohammad Index

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