Domicile and Diaspora - 9781405100540

Domicile and DiasporaAnglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home\nAuthor(s): Alison Blunt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405100540, 978-1405100540\nSynopsis\nDomicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. \n\nThe first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia.\nThe first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent.\nInvestigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947.\nDraws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research.\nMakes a distinctive contribution to debates about home, identity, hybridity, migration and diaspora.