Women in the Indian Diaspora Historical Narratives and Contemporary Challenges [Hardcover]

This volume brings into focus a range of emergent issues related to women in the Indian diaspora.?The conditions propelling womens migration and their experiences during the process of migration and settlement have always been different and very specific to them.?Standing in-between the two worlds of origin and adoption, women tend to experience dialectic tensions between freedom and subjugation, but they often use this space to assert independence, and to redefine their roles and perceptions of self. The? central?idea in this volume is to understand womens agency in addressing and redressing the complex issues faced by them; in restructuring the cultural formats of patriarchy and gender relations;?managing the emerging conflicts over what is to be transmitted to the following generations,;?renegotiating their domestic roles and embracing new professional and educational successes; and adjusting?to?the institutional structures of the host state. The essays included in the volume discuss women in the Indian diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives involving?social, economic, cultural, and political aspects. Such an effort privileges diasporic womens experiences and perspectives in the academia and among policy makers.?

1.?Women in Indian Diaspora: Redefining Self between Dislocation and Relocation?Amba Pande.-?Part I The Context of Theory and Identity.- 2. Centring Gendered Narratives of the Indian Diaspora?Sandhya Rao Mehta.- 3. The Rhetoric of Deliberation and the Space of the Hyphen: Identity Politics of the Indian Women Diaspora in the Fictions of Jhumpa Lahiri?Nabanita Chakraborty.- 4. Freedom or subjugation: Interpreting the subjectivity of women in Indian Diaspora Communities?Sheetal Sharma.?Part II Revisiting Historical Narratives.- 5. Indian Indentured Women in the Caribbeans and the Role MolãK