Domicile and Diaspora Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home [Paperback]

• The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia.
  
• The first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent.
  
• Investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947.
  
• Draws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research.
  
• Makes a distinctive contribution to debates about home, identity, hybridity, migration and diaspora.

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: l3-