Contents

pp v-vi

Foreword

pp vii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp xiii-xxii

Section I - Historical Antecedents and the Question of Nationality

pp 1-2

1 - Blackbirders Refitted? The Journeys of Capitalists and Labourers in the Indian Ocean, 1830s–1930s

pp 3-12

2 - Connecting Diaspora Histories: Indians and Chinese in Colonial Malaya

pp 13-24

3 - Chinese and Indian Diaspora: Some Common and Not-So-Common Cultural Processes

pp 25-40

Section II - The Meeting Ground: Indians and Chinese in Southeast Asia

pp 41-42

4 - China's Nationality Laws and the Chinese Overseas

pp 43-54

5 - A Comparison of the Home Remittance Systems of Indian and Chinese Migrants in Southeast Asia: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

pp 55-76

6 - Identity, Transnationalism and Corporate Development: Chinese Business in Malaysia

pp 77-90

7 - Beyond the Glitterati: The Indian and Chinese Jewellers of Little India, Singapore

pp 91-108

8 - Indian and Chinese Communities in Contemporary Burma: A Comparative Analysis of Their Presence and Influence

pp 109-136

9 - Expressions of Faith in Hindu Processional Festivals: Case Studies from Singapore and Malaysia

pp 137-152

10 - Beyond Boundaries? Hindu Spaces in the Chinatowns of Kolkata and Singapore

pp 153-164

Section III - Indians in China and Chinese in India

pp 165-166

11 - Law and Its Impact on Diasporic Philanthropic Institutions: The Practices of Sinchew and the Waqs in the Straits Settlements

pp 167-186

12 - Indian Soldiers and Policemen in China in the Colonial Period

pp 187-196

13 - New Indian Migrants in Guangzhou and Its Vicinity

pp 197-218

14 - Who Is a Chinese-Indian? Search for the Cultural Identity of the Chinese-Indians in Kolkata, Sihui and Toronto

pp 219-232

Section IV - Across the Globe: Indian and Chinese Diasporas

pp 233-234

15 - Overseas Indian and Chinese Communities in Film: Defining Identities through Popular Hindi Film and Transnational Chinese and Indian Films, 1990s Onwards

pp 235-256

16 - The “Other” NRIs: The Case of Low-Wage Indian Migrants in the Gulf

pp 257-280

Postscript - Shifting Worlds and Changing Identities: The Reshaping of the Chinese-Indian Communities in India after the 1962 “Sino-Indian Incident”

pp 281-290

List of Contributors

pp 291-294

Index

pp 295-305