Dissertation
Horizons of memory: A global processual study of cultural memory and identity of the South Asian indentured labor diaspora in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
08/2008
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005861
Abstract
The objective of this research is to assess and investigate the processes of formation and preservation of identity among the indentured labor populations that emigrated from India after the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean plantations. This work fundamentally challenges the notion of an inherent, static and immutable Indian identity and moves away from those directions in the historiography that are concerned with the continuity and persistence of Indian traditions. Instead, it presents identity as a process, which is dynamic, adaptive, and contextual, and contingent on legal, ideological, political, demographic and economic determinants.
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- Title
- Horizons of memory
- Creators
- Amitava Chowdhury
- Contributors
- Candice Goucher (Advisor) - Washington State University, Department of History
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of History
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 277
- Identifiers
- 99901055034701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation