Locating Home: India's Hyderabadis Abroad

by Karen Isaksen Leonard

This book is a comparative study of Hyderabadi emigrants settling in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates at the end of the twentieth century. Based on ten years of fieldwork and extensive interviews, it traces Hyderabadi culture and institutions in these places of settlement, looking at the different versions of Hyderabadi history transmitted and the personal networks and collective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080475442X
• ISBN13: 9780804754422
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.0"