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Indian Transmigrants: Malaysian and Comparative Essays
by Jain, Ravindra K
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- ISBN 10
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Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: SIRD, 2009. 2011 edition. Paperback. New. New. Jain, a scholar specialising on the Indian diaspora, particularly the section that emigrated from Tamil Nadu to Malaysia, updates his earlier work 'South Indians on the Plantation Frontier in Malaya' in this wide ranging selection of his fieldwork based essays written since that book was first published. In this work he also examines comparative trends between migrations to Malaysia and to other areas where the Indian diaspora has settled. 266 pages. The essays included here cover the following topics Tamilian Labour and the Malayan Plantations, 1840-1938, Malaysian Multiculturalism and the Indian Diaspora, Tamils on the Plantation Frontier in Malaysia Revisited, 1998-99, Overseas Indians in Malaysia and the Caribbean, Culture, Class and Mobility among Transmigrants: A Comparative Exercise, Electronic Media in Contemporary India and its Diaspora, Malaysian Indians and the Current Crisis of Political Economy. There is also a bibliography, index, tables and black and white plates. Weight 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia
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- Bookseller
- The Penang Bookshelf
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ML1182
- Title
- Indian Transmigrants: Malaysian and Comparative Essays
- Author
- Jain, Ravindra K
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- 2011 edition
- ISBN 10
- 967583224X
- ISBN 13
- 9789675832246
- Publisher
- SIRD
- Place of Publication
- Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Malaysia - Indian Diaspora - Tamil Labour -
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