{"product_id":"9781877372858","title":"India in New Zealand: Local Identities, Global Relations","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIndian people in \"bi-cultural\" New Zealand have long been an invisible minority, rarely mentioned in our history books. This volume is a second contribution to remedying this historical silence, following the publication of\u003ci\u003e Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community\u003c\/i\u003e by Jacqueline Leckie. The first section introduces the context, briefly tracing the history of Empire and migration, which saw a few hundred adventurers from Gujarat and Punjab braving the seas and settling here in the late 19th century. Now Indians constitute the second-largest Asian-Kiwi group in our population (having more than doubled in number between 1991 and 2001). This increasing diversity has initiated a fresh debate on New Zealand's changing national identity, with the emphasis shifting from its bicultural foundation to greater recognition of ethnic minorities within the nation-space. The second section critically addresses the issue of a distinctive and uniform \"New Zealand Indian\" identity and rethinks diasporic identity. In the third section, the Indian diaspora in New Zealand is looked at from a wider global perspective.","brand":"Otago University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050808459504,"sku":"9781877372858","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781877372858_p0.jpg?v=1763602782","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781877372858","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}