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Mobilizing India : women, music, and migration between India and Trinidad

Author: Tejaswini Niranjana
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Offers an analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities "back home". This book reveals India's disavowal of the indentured  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Niranjana, Tejaswini, 1958-
Mobilizing India.
Durham : Duke University Press, c2006
(OCoLC)651837315
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Tejaswini Niranjana
ISBN: 0822338289 9780822338284 0822338424 9780822338420
OCLC Number: 64585850
Description: x, 271 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. "The Indian in me" : studying the subaltern diaspora --
2. "Left to the imagination" : Indian nationalism and female sexuality --
3. "Take a little chutney, add a touch of Kaiso" : the body in the voice --
4. Jumping out of time : the "Indian" in Calypso --
5. "Suku Suku what shall I do?" : Hindi cinema and the politics of music --
Afterword : a semi-lime.
Responsibility: Tejaswini Niranjana.
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"Tejaswini Niranjana listens to the tones and echoes of Indianness in the Caribbean and elaborates a South-South genealogy that obligates us to reconceive the cultural geography of modernity. From Read more...

 
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