NEW BOOK - India in New Zealand: Local Identities, Global Relations [08.06.2010]
New publication from Otago University Press that might interest some of you. It features one of our AASRN members, Ruth DeSouza.
India in New Zealand: Local Identities, Global Relations
Edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Release date: August 2010
Indian people in ‘bi-cultural’ New Zealand have long been an invisible minority, rarely mentioned in our history books. This volume is a second contribution to remedying this historical silence, following the publication of Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community by Jacqueline Leckie. The first section introduces the context, briefly tracing the history of Empire and migration, which saw a few hundred adventurers from Gujarat and Punjab braving the seas and settling here in the late 19th century. Now Indians constitute the second-largest Asian-Kiwi group in our population (having more than doubled in number between 1991 and 2001). This increasing diversity has initiated a fresh debate on New Zealand’s changing national identity, with the emphasis shifting from its bicultural foundation to greater recognition of ethnic minorities within the nation-space. The second section critically addresses the issue of a distinctive and uniform ‘New Zealand Indian’ identity and rethinks diasporic identity. In the third section, the Indian diaspora in New Zealand is looked at from a wider global perspective.
CONTENTS:
Introduction Sekhar Bandyopadhyay I Migration and Settlement 1 India in New Zealand: The Fault Lines of Colonial Culture Tony Ballantyne 2 A Long Diaspora: Indian Settlement Jacqueline Leckie 3 Indian Presence: A Demographic Profile Arvind Zodgekar II Local Identities 4 What Does It Mean To Be Indian? A View from Christchurch Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach, Aditya Malik 5 Growing Up Indian: Problems of Cultural Identity Gwyn Williams 6 Choosing Indian and Kiwi Identities: The Ethnic Options of Local Gujaratis Amanda Gilbertson 7 New Mothers in a New Land: Indian Migrant Mothers Talk Ruth DeSouza 8 Lighting Up Aotearoa: Presenting Diwali to a Multicultural Nation Henry Johnson III Global Relations 9 In the Shadow of the Empire: India–New Zealand Relations since 1947 Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 10 New Zealand and Globalising India: The Challenge of Developing Economic Engagement Tim Beal 11 A Stormy Affair: Local Indian Film Production (1993–2003) Rebecca C.M. Kunin
FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK:
http://www.otago.ac.nz/press/booksauthors/indiainnewzealand.htm