The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other
cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in …

Interest in the area of diaspora and communication has been steadily increasing since the
mid-1990s. The idea for this collection orginated at the 1998 conference of the International …

When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found
themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper …

Coolitude is both an intellectual interpretation of and a poetic and artistic immersion into the
world of the vanished coolie. This collection of previously unpublished texts, poems and …

Floating Lives is a unique examination of media and communication within diasporic ethnic
communities, using in-depth studies of some of Australia's main Asian diasporic groups: the …

When the colonial slave trade, and then slavery itself, were abolished early in the 19th
century, the British empire brazenly set up a new system of trade using Indian rather than …

How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and
violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the …

Exploration of how Australia and Asia are intertwined in everyday culture, and in the
imagined worlds of Australians of all backgrounds. Investigates Asian cultural production of …

Disturbing History focuses on Fiji's people and their agency in responding to and engaging
the multifarious forms of authority and power that were manifest in the colony from 1874 to …

“Indians are ubiquitous,” reports the Calcutta newspaper The Statesman on 5 August 1980.
According to this article, there were then only five countries in the world where Indians “have …