Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad

Tejaswini Niranjana

Published by Duke University Press 2006

Mobilizing India

Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad

Tejaswini Niranjana

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822388425

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An innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities "back home" in India.

Author / Editor information

Tejaswini Niranjana is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society in Bangalore, India. She is the author of Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context and a coeditor of Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India.

Reviews

“Tejaswini Niranjana listens to the tones and echoes of Indianness in the Caribbean and elaborates a South–South genealogy that obligates us to reconceive the cultural geography of modernity. From the ‘moral status of the coolie woman’ in British colonialist and Indian nationalist discourses to the figure of the ‘Indian woman’ in Afro-Trinidadian calypso, Hindi cinema musics, and female chutney-soca performances, she pronounces the gendered rhythms of popular music as subaltern cultural politics.”—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics

“Tejaswini Niranjana’s fine achievement in Mobilizing India is to have given shape to a compelling way of rethinking the conceptual agenda for the comparative study of the Third World.”—David Scott, author of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

“Mobilizing India. . . is a sophisticated, well-written, and engaging book which does indeed-as promised- provide a model for comparative cultural research across the global South. Those interested in Caribbean cultural studies, in the development of popular music in postcolonial societies, in identity and gender politics in a multiracial polity, will all find much that is valuable and original in this book.”

-- Bridget Brereton Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

“Niranjana . . . has written a sophisticated study of women, diasporic dynamics, and ethnic identity in Indo-Trinidadian society, using popular music as a lens though which to view these. . . . Her book is certainly recommended reading for students and scholars of South Asian diasporas and Caribbean studies.”

-- Peter Manuel Ethnomusicology

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Note on Usage Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. ‘‘The Indian in Me’’: Studying the Subaltern Diaspora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. ‘‘Left to the Imagination’’: Indian Nationalism and Female Sexuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
3. ‘‘Take a Little Chutney, Add a Touch of Kaiso’’: The Body in the Voice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
4. Jumping out of Time: The ‘‘Indian’’ in Calypso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
5. ‘‘Suku Suku What Shall I Do?’’: Hindi Cinema and the Politics of Music Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Afterword: A Semi-Lime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 46 b&w photos

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Published: October 12, 2006
ISBN: 9780822388425