Indian Caribbean : Migration and Identity in the Diaspora

Roopnarine, Lomarsh

ISBN 10: 149681438X / ISBN 13: 9781496814388

Edité par University Press of Mississippi, 2018

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• Titre: Indian Caribbean : Migration and Identity in the Diaspora
• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 149681438X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781496814388
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

This book tells a distinct story of Indians in the Caribbean--one concentrated not only on archival records and institutions, but also on the voices of the people and the ways in which they define themselves and the world around them. Through oral history and ethnography, Lomarsh

Roopnarine explores previously marginalized Indians in the Caribbean and their distinct social dynamics and histories, including the French Caribbean and other islands with smaller South Asian populations. He pursues a comparative approach with inclusive themes that cut across the Caribbean.

In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import

of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean. Today India bears little relevance to most of these Caribbean Indians. Yet, Caribbean Indians have developed an in-between status, shaped by South Asian customs such as religion, music, folklore, migration, new identities, and Bollywood films. They do not seem akin to Indians in India, nor are they like Caribbean Creoles, or mixed-race Caribbeans. Instead, they have merged India and the Caribbean to produce a distinct, dynamic local entity.

The book does not neglect the arrival of nonindentured Indians in the Caribbean since the early 1900s. These people came to the Caribbean without an indentured contract or after indentured emancipation but have formed significant communities in Barbados, the US Virgin Islands, and Jamaica. Drawing upon over

twenty-five years of research in the Caribbean and North America, Roopnarine contributes a thorough analysis of the Indo-Caribbean, among the first to look at the entire Indian diaspora across the Caribbean.

À propos de l'auteur

Lomarsh Roopnarine, originally from Guyana, is professor of Caribbean and Latin American history at Jackson State University. He is author of Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance and Accommodation, 1838-1920 and Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873. Published widely on the South Asian diaspora in the Caribbean, he has written articles in many journals that focus on the Caribbean and Latin America.