Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home

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List of Figures.Series Editors' Preface.Acknowledgements.1 Domicile and Diaspora: An Introduction.Domicile.Diaspora.Home, Memory and Nostalgia.Methodology.Chapter Outline.2 At Home in British India: Imperial Domesticity and National Identity.Imperial Domesticity.Nationalist Domesticity.Domicile and Domesticity.'Land of our Mothers'.Home, Identity and Nationality.Conclusions.3 Home, Community and Nation: Domesticating Identity and Embodying Modernity.Domesticating Identity.Embodying Modernity.Domestic Transgression.Home, Community and Nation.Conclusions.4 Colonization and Settlement: Anglo-Indian Homelands.Homelands and Settlements.Anglo-Indian Colonization and Settlement.Colonizing McCluskieganj.Anglo-Indian Home-making.Dreams of the Future.McCluskieganj Today.Conclusions.5 Independence and Decolonization: Anglo-Indian Resettlement in Britain.Migration and Resettlement.Britishness, Whiteness and Mixed Descent.Documenting Paternity and Recolonizing Identity.Unsettled Domesticity.Embodied Identities and the Limits of Familiarity.Conclusions.6 Mixed Descent, Migration and Multiculturalism: Anglo-Indians in Australia since 1947.Anglo-Indians in White Australia.HMAS Manoora.Anglo-Indian Migration in the Wake of HMAS Manoora.From 'Race' to 'Culture'.From White Australia to Multiculturalism.Anglo-Indians in Multicultural Australia.Conclusions.7 At Home in Independent India: Post-Imperial Domesticity and National Identity.Staying on in India.Nationality and Community.Anglo-Indian Women in Independent India.Dress.Home and Work.Marriage.Conclusions.8 Domicile and Diaspora: Conclusions.Bibliography.Appendix 1 Archival Sources.Appendix 2 Interviews and Focus Groups.Notes.Bibliography.Index

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