Indian Merchant Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 883-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Markovits
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
South Asian History ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Asian History ◽  
First World

In spite of the recent flowering of studies on the South Asian diaspora, we are nevertheless left with many gaps in our knowledge and many unanswered questions. The bulk of existing work is still focused on the migration of agricultural labour and the ‘Little Indias’ it spawned in various corners of the world. The recent migrations of educated professionals to the countries of the ‘First World’, particularly the USA, are also attracting increasing attention. The whole field of migration and diaspora studies remains, however, dominated by a host country perspective which tends to obliterate the general picture from the point of view of South Asian history.

Diabetes in the South Asian diaspora

2011 ◽  
pp. 1803-1805
Author(s):  
Srikanth Bellary ◽  
Kamlesh Khunti ◽  
Anthony H. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
The Usa ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Second World

Increased labour demands in Europe following the Second World War led to a migration of workers from the Indian subcontinent to many parts of Europe. A further wave of migration occurred in the 1960s and 1970s because of political turmoil in East Africa. More recently, technological progress and the need for skilled labour has resulted in migration to different parts of the world, including the USA and Canada. The term ‘South Asian’ broadly refers to people of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi origin, but those from Sri Lanka and Nepal are commonly also included. Although there is considerable heterogeneity between these subgroups, they share many sociocultural factors.

scholarly journals Contextual interpretation of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Concept of Islam

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-111
Author(s):  
Hajra Salim ◽  
Abdul Rashid Khan
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
South Asian History ◽  
Great Leader ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Concept ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Freedom Movement

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the most controversial, misinterpreted and misunderstood personality in the South Asian history of Freedom Movement. Not only Indian and British historians but also Pakistanis historians are confused about his sect and beliefs. Jinnah’s figure was buried under the layers of propaganda. This is the most contentious discussed issue in Pakistan among the different scholars. Both right and left wing intellectuals sought legitimacy of their views with the vision of Jinnah, either the Jinnah was secular or Islamist. The object of the purposed research paper is to analyze and understand the Religious Concept of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and also explore his concept of Islam to resolve the problematic condition of the nature of Pakistani state. Contextual interpretation of Struggle Movement has great importance for analyzing the character and active participation of our great leader and also necessary for removing the misunderstandings about his personality. Different historians, intellectuals, scholars and thinkers are doing their best to prove him a secular or Islamist leader according to their own point of view and perception with the references of his speeches, statements, different events of his life and from his works. His personality was interpreted by the historians from different angles and aspects to clear the questions that were raised in their minds about his secularism.

Rethinking South Asian Diaspora Studies

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 125-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monisha Das Gupta ◽  
Charu Gupta ◽  
Katerina Martina Teaiwa
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Asian Diaspora

Australianama

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samia Khatun
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asian ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Broken Hill ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
Indian Ocean World

Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian diaspora. Australia has long been an outpost of Anglo empires in the Indian Ocean world, today the site of military infrastructure central to the surveillance of 'Muslim-majority' countries across the region. Imperial knowledges from Australian territories contribute significantly to the Islamic-Western binary of the post- Cold War era. In narrating a history of Indian Ocean connections from the perspectives of those colonized by the British, Khatun highlights alternative contexts against which to consider accounts of non-white people. Australianama challenges a central idea that powerfully shapes history books across the Anglophone world: the colonial myth that European knowledge traditions are superior to the epistemologies of the colonized. Arguing that Aboriginal and South Asian language sources are keys to the vast, complex libraries that belie colonized geographies, Khatun shows that stories in colonized tongues can transform the very ground from which we view past, present and future.

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