India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England

by Sandhya Shukla

Book Overview

India Abroad analyzes the development of Indian diasporas in the United States and England from 1947, the year of Indian independence, to the present. Across different spheres of culture--festivals, entrepreneurial enclaves, fiction, autobiography, newspapers, music, and film--migrants have created India as a way to negotiate life in the multicultural United States and Britain. Sandhya Shukla considers how Indian diaspora has become a contact...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691092672
• ISBN13: 9780691092676
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"