Alexander, Claire

The Bengal diaspora : rethinking Muslim migration / Claire Alexander, Joya Chatterji and Annu Jalais. - Special Indian edition - New York NY : London ; Routledge, 2017 - xvii, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Routledge contemporary South Asia series, 102. .

Pre-histories of mobility and immobility : the Bengal Delta and the "Eastern Zone," 1857-1947 --
Dispositions and destinations in the Bengal Muslim diaspora, 1947-2007 --
Belonging, status, and religion : migrants on the "peripheries" --
Making home : claiming and contesting diasporic space in Britain --
"Always/already migrants" : brides, marriage, and migration --
Building a tazia, becoming a paik : "Bihari" identity amid a hostile Bengali universe --
Rituals of diaspora : the Shahid Minar and the struggle for diasporic space --
Narrating diaspora : community histories and the politics of assimilation --
Glossary --
Appendix 1: Shamsul Huq's family tree.

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Bengali (South Asian people) --Migrations.
Muslims-- Migrations.
Bengali (South Asian people)--Social conditions.

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