Global South Asians

Global South Asians
Author: Judith M. Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2006-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139458000

By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century, many left reluctantly to seek economic opportunities which were lacking at home. This is the story of their often painful experiences in the diaspora, how they constructed new social communities overseas and how they maintained connections with the countries and the families they had left behind. It is a story compellingly told by one of the premier historians of modern South Asia, Judith Brown, whose particular knowledge of the diaspora in Britain and South Africa gives her insight as a commentator. This is a book which will have a broad appeal to general readers as well as to students of South Asian and colonial history, migration studies and sociology.

The Indentured Archipelago

The Indentured Archipelago
Author: Reshaad Durgahee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2022-02-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316512266

A historical geographical comparison of the Indo-Pacific Indian indenture labour experience, revealing the hitherto unexplored movements of labourers between colonies.

Global South Asia

Global South Asia
Author: Madhurima Chakraborty
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-01-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781032160214

This book collects essays that take on the excavatory, critical, and generative work of rethinking the relationship between South Asia and the world.

Nature in the Global South

Nature in the Global South
Author: Paul Greenough
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822331490

DIVAlternative cultural forms of environmentalism in South and Southeast Asia./div

South Asia in World History

South Asia in World History
Author: Marc Jason Gilbert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199760349

South Asia and the world to 1500 BCE -- The Vedic Age, 1500 to 500 BCE -- South Asia's classical age: 325 BCE to 711 CE -- Islam in South Asia, c. 711 to 1556 -- The great mughals: c. 1556-1757 -- From company state to crown rule, c. 1757-1877 -- From the rise of nationalism to independence, 1885-1948 -- Tryst with destiny: South Asia and the world, 1947 to the present

South Asia in the World: An Introduction

South Asia in the World: An Introduction
Author: Susan S Wadley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317459598

This first book in the new Foundations in Global Studies series offers a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to South Asia. The variations in social, cultural, economic, and political life in this diverse and complex region are explored within the context of the globalising forces affecting all regions of the world. In a simple strategy that all books in the series employ, the volume begins with foundational material (including chapters on history, language, and, in the case of South Asia, religion), moves to a discussion of globalisation, and then focuses the investigation more specifically through the use of case studies. The cases expose the student to various disciplinary lenses that are important in understanding the region and are meant to bring the region to life through subjects of high interest and significance to today's readers. Resource boxes, an important feature of the book, are included to maintain currency and add utility. They offer links that point readers to a rich archive of additional material, connections to timely data, reports on recent events, official sites, local and country-based media, visual material, and so forth. A website developed by Syracuse University's South Asia Center will feature additional graphic, narrative, and case study material to complement the book.

South Asia in World Politics

South Asia in World Politics
Author: Devin T. Hagerty
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2005
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780742525870

South Asia in World Politics offers a comprehensive introduction to the politics and international relations of South Asia, a key area encompassing the states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. While U.S. interest has long been sporadic and reactive, 9/11 alerted Washington that paying only fitful attention to one of the world's most volatile and populous regions was a recipe for everyday instability, repeated international crises, major and minor wars, and conditions so chronically unsettled that they continue to provide a fertile breeding ground for transnational Islamic terrorism. Exploring the many facets of this dynamic region, the book also assesses U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and explains the importance of Bangladesh and Pakistan, two of only a handful of Islamic states with significant track records as democracies.

Global Digital Cultures

Global Digital Cultures
Author: Aswin Punathambekar
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0472125311

Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping how people engage with others as kin, as citizens, and as consumers. Moving away from Anglo-American and strictly national frameworks, the essays in this book explore the intersections of local, national, regional, and global forces that shape contemporary digital culture(s) in regions like South Asia: the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of digital media practice and use that are reconfiguring sociocultural, political, and economic terrains across the Indian subcontinent. From massive state-driven digital identity projects and YouTube censorship to Tinder and dating culture, from Twitter and primetime television to Facebook and political rumors, Global Digital Cultures focuses on enduring concerns of representation, identity, and power while grappling with algorithmic curation and data-driven processes of production, circulation, and consumption.

South Asia in the New World Order

South Asia in the New World Order
Author: Shahid Javed Burki
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2011-03-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136819703

Rapid changes have taken place in the structure of the global economy, and this book looks at how South Asia can take advantage of these changes. The author argues that the developing global economy will be more complex than originally thought, that instead of a bipolar model with two countries, the US and China, at the centre, it will be multipolar with eight centres of economic activity, including India. The book goes on to suggest that in the context of such a model, there should be regional cooperation between India and its immediate neighbouring countries for South Asia to advance as an economic region. It argues that South Asia will need to look at its history, and that changes in attitudes, particularly in India and Pakistan, are necessary. The possible benefits to the region, in terms of increases in the rates of economic growth if the regional approach is adopted, are discussed. The book presents a useful contribution to studies in South Asia, as well as Asian Economics.