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East Indian diaspora --- East Indians --- Cultural assimilation --- Diaspora, East Indian --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indic peoples --- Diaspora --- East Indian diaspora. --- Human geography --- Ethnology --- Migrations --- Indians (India)

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The chapters presented in this volume represent a wide variety of Indian diasporic experiences. From indenture labour to the present day immigrations, Indian diasporic narrative is one that offers opportunities to evaluate afresh notions of ethnicity, race, caste, gender and religious diversity. From victim discourse to narratives of optimism and complexities of identity issues, the Indian diaspora has exhibited characteristics that enable us as scholars to construct theoretical views on the diaspora and migration. The cases included in this volume will illumine such theoretical ideas. The readers will certainly be able to appreciate the diversity and the depth of these narratives and gain insight into the social and cultural and religious world of the diaspora.

East Indian diaspora. --- East Indians --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- Diaspora, East Indian --- Human geography --- Social conditions. --- Religion. --- Diaspora --- Migrations

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This book critically examines the history and current issues on the migration of Indian students to Australia.

Migration. Refugees --- Higher education --- India --- Australia --- East Indians --- East Indian students --- Students --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- Education --- Social conditions. --- Emigration and immigration.

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"It is a pleasure to commend this collection of very different essays that celebrate, reflect upon and extend the life and work of a remarkable scholar. Although I have had, at times, a close association with Brij Lals life and work, I have learned much from reading this book. It provokes further thought about the course of democracy in Fiji, and the very sorry state and future of Pacific history and the humanities in academia. Here is a timely assertion of the significance and major contribution that courageous scholars such as Brij have made to the study and public awareness of these areas of concern"--Jacqueline Leckie, University of Otago.

E-books --- Festschriften. --- Indentured servants --- East Indians --- Intellectual life. --- Fiji --- Politics and government. --- History. --- Servants, Indentured --- Anniversary volumes --- Commemorative volumes --- Homage volumes --- Jubilee volumes --- Wedding publications --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indic peoples --- Contract labor --- Slave labor --- Essays --- Ethnology --- Indians (India)

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Rajend Mesthrie examines the rise of a new variety of English among Indian migrant workers indentured on the plantations of Natal in South Africa. Considering the historical background to, and linguistic consequences of, language shift in an immigrant context, he draws significant parallels between second language acquisition and the processes of pidginization and creolization. In particular, he analyses universals of second language acquisition and the role of transfer from the Indic and Dravidian substrate languages. English in Language Shift observes the acquisition of language in its social setting, often outside the classroom. Its linguistic focus is on the distinctive syntax of South African Indian English, with respect to word order and clause structures; and it contains descriptions of lexis, phonetics and morphology, in terms of social variation. South African Indian English is compared with other dialects within South Africa, with English in India, and with Englishes generally.

Dialectology --- Sociolinguistics --- English language --- South Africa --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- East Indians --- Languages in contact --- Areal linguistics --- Germanic languages --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- Languages. --- Social aspects --- Variation --- History.