Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora

Abstract

Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Exceptions and Exceptionality in Dubai 3 1. A Tale of Two Creeks: Cosmopolitan Productions and Cosmopolitan Erasures in Contemporary Dubai 36 2. An Indian City? Diasporic Subjectivity and Urban Citizenship in Old Dubai 65 3. Between Global City and Golden Frontier: Indian Businessmen, Unofficial Citizenship, and Shifting Forms of Belonging 91 4. Exceeding the Economic: New Modalities of Belonging among Middle-class Dubai Indians 117 5. Becoming Indian in Dubai: Parochialisms and Globalisms in Privatized Education 144 Conclusion. Reassessing Gulf Studies: Citizenship, Democracy, and the Political 171 Notes 191 Bibliography 221 Index 235

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