Domicile and Diaspora

Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home

• Author(s): Alison Blunt,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 304
• ISBN_10: 1444399187
  ISBN_13: 9781444399189
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Human Geography , Science / Earth Sciences / Geography ,

Description:... Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947.

• 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.