@article{1454437,
      recid = {1454437},
      author = {Singh, Neha, and Chapparban, Sajaudeen Nijamodeen,},
      title = {Literature of Girmitiya : history, culture and identity /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book covers various forms of the production of  girmitiya culture and literature. One of the main  objectives is to conceptualize the idea of girmitya,  girmitology, and girmitiya literature, culture, history,  and identity in both colonial and postcolonial contexts.  This book aims to document the history, experiences,  culture, assimilation, and identity of girmitiya community.  It also critically analyses the articulation, projection,  and production of their experiences of migration and being  immigrant, their narratives, tradition, culture, religion,  and memory. It also explores how this labour community  formulated into a diaspora community and  reconnected/created the home (land) and continues to do so  in the wake of globalization and Information and  Communication Technology (ICT). This book is an attempt to  bring the intriguing neglected diverse historical heritage  of colonial labour migration and their narratives into the  mainstream scholarly debates and discussions in the  humanities and the social sciences through the trans- and  interdisciplinary perspectives. This book assesses the  routes of migration of old diaspora, and it explains the  nuances of cultural change among the generations. Although,  they have migrated centuries back, absorbed and  assimilated, and got citizenships of respective countries  of destinations but still their longing for roots, culture,  identities, "home", and the constant struggle is to retain  connections with their homeland depicted in their cultural  practices, arts, music, songs, folklore and literary  manifestations. Neha Singh is Assistant Professor in the  Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies  at Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Sajaudeen  Chapparban is Assistant Professor in the Centre for  Diaspora Studies at Central University of Gujarat,  Gandhinagar, India.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1454437},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4621-9},
}