Download or read book East Indian Women of Trinidad and Tobago written by Kumar Mahabir and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mobilizing India written by Tejaswini Niranjana and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad’s population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian, what “Indian” signifies—about nationalism, gender, culture, caste, race, and religion—in the Caribbean is different from what it means on the subcontinent. Yet the ways that “Indianness” is conceived of and performed in India and in Trinidad have historically been, and remain, intimately related. Offering an innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities “back home,” Tejaswini Niranjana models a necessary project: comparative research across the global South, scholarship that decenters the “first world” West as the referent against which postcolonial subjects understand themselves and are understood by others. Niranjana draws on nineteenth-century travel narratives, anthropological and historical studies of Trinidad, Hindi film music, and the lyrics, performance, and reception of chutney-soca and calypso songs to argue that perceptions of Indian female sexuality in Trinidad have long been central to the formation and disruption of dominant narratives of nationhood, modernity, and normative sexuality in India. She illuminates debates in India about “the woman question” as they played out in the early-twentieth-century campaign against indentured servitude in the tropics. In so doing, she reveals India’s disavowal of the indentured woman—viewed as morally depraved by her forced labor in Trinidad—as central to its own anticolonial struggle. Turning to the present, Niranjana looks to Trinidad’s most dynamic site of cultural negotiation: popular music. She describes how contested ideas of Indian femininity are staged by contemporary Trinidadian musicians—male and female, of both Indian and African descent—in genres ranging from new hybrids like chutney-soca to the older but still vibrant music of Afro-Caribbean calypso.

Download or read book A Social History of East Indian Women in Trinidad Since 1870 written by Shameen Ali and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Daughters in the Diaspora written by Shameen Ali and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The East Indian Indenture in Trinidad written by Judith Ann Weller and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book East Indians in Trinidad written by Morton Klass and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a village in Trinidad during the late 1950s which was inhabited almost entirely by East Indians.

Download or read book Mobilizing India written by Tejaswini Niranjana and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities "back home" in India.

Download or read book The Vanguard of Indian Nationalism in Trinidad written by Brinsley Samaroo and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Last Female Field Gang written by Noorkumar Mahabir and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Calcutta to Caroni written by John Gaffar La Guerre and published by Addison Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1974 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marriage and Family Differences Among Lower class Negro and East Indian Women in Trinidad written by Robert R. Bell and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indian Women and Indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago 1845 1917 Freedom Denied written by Rhoda E. Reddock and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Changing Family Structure of the East Indians in Rural Trinidad written by Joseph John Nevadomsky and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad 1917 1947 written by P. Mohammed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-01-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the struggles of female and male descendants of Indian indentured migrants in Trinidad in the first half of the twentieth century, each desiring to preserve some aspects of the gender system brought from India between 1845 and 1917, which were important to their continued definition of ethnic identity and community in Trinidad. At the same time the situation of migration allows for challenges to the caste system of Hinduism and, for women and some men, new opportunities to confront the more restricting aspect of Indian patriarchy which followed them across the seas from India.

Download or read book East Indians in Trinidad written by Yogendra K. Malik and published by London ; New York : published for the Institute of Race Relations by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trinidad and Tobago. Study of the formation and development of the East Indian minority group political party in trinidad - includes the interview questionnaire used, covers trinidad's pluralistic social structure, cultural factors, the role of family and religion and concludes that the failure of the Indian Elite to win political power was due to its inability to rise above narrow ethnic group loyalties. Bibliography pp. 175 to 185.

Download or read book Aspects of East Indian Family in Trinidad and Tobago written by Jagdish Chandra Jha and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Callaloo Or Tossed Salad written by Viranjini Munasinghe and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callaloo or Tossed Salad? is a historical and ethnographic case study of the politics of cultural struggle between two traditionally subordinate ancestral groups in Trinidad, those claiming African and Indian descent. Viranjini Munasinghe argues that East Indians in Trinidad seek to become a legitimate part of the nation by redefining what it means to be Trinidadian, not by changing what it means to be Indian. In her view, Indo-Trinidadians' recent and ongoing struggle for national and cultural identity builds from dissatisfaction with the place they were originally assigned within Trinidadian society. The author examines how Indo-Trinidadian leaders in Trinidad have come to challenge the implicit claim that their ethnic identity is antithetical to their national identity. Their political and cultural strategy seeks to change the national image of Trinidad by introducing Indian elements alongside those of the dominant Afro-Caribbean (Creole) culture.Munasinghe analyzes a number of broad theoretical issues: the moral, political, and cultural dimensions of identity; the relation between ethnicity and the nation; and the possible autonomy of New World nationalisms from European forms. She details how principles of exclusion continue to operate in nationalist projects that celebrate ancestral diversity and multiculturalism. Drawing on the insights of theorists who use creolization to understand the emergence of Afro-American cultures, Munasinghe argues that Indo-Trinidadians can be considered Creole because they, like Afro-Trinidadians, are creators and not just bearers of culture.