Research Catalog

Title

Indian communities in Southeast Asia / edited by K.S. Sandhu & A. Mani.

Publication

Singapore : Times Academic Press and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sandhu, Kernial Singh
• Mani, A.
• Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Description

xxii, 983 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

• East Indians > Southeast Asia > History
• Southeast Asia > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. A Community in Transition: Indians in Negara Brunei Darussalam / A. Mani -- 2. Indians in Indochina / Nayan Chanda -- 3. Indians in North Sumatra / A. Mani -- 4. Indians in Jakarta / A. Mani -- 5. Indians in Indonesia: A Component of Indonesian National Integration / Harsja W. Bachtiar -- 6. The Coming of the Indians to Malaysia / Kernial Singh Sandhu -- 7. Malaysian Indians: The Formation of Incipient Society / Sinnappah Arasaratnam -- 8. Political Marginalization in Malaysia / Chandra Muzaffar -- 9. The Indian Political Elite in Malaysia / Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown -- 10. Malay Attitudes towards Indians / Khoo Kay Kim -- 11. Plantation Capital and Indian Labour in Colonial Malaya / Jomo Kwame Sundaram -- 12. Socio-Economic Transformation of Malaysian Indian Plantation Workers / P. Ramasamy -- 13. Indians in the Public Sector in Malaysia / Mavis Puthucheary -- 14. Ethnic Socio-Economic Distribution: Indians in Malaysia / Sahathavan Meyanathan -- 15. Economic Problems and Challenges Facing the Indian Community in Malaysia / A. Sivalingam -- 16. The Indian Poor in Malaysia: Problems and Solutions / D. Jeyakumar -- 17. Social and Economic Correlates of Fertility: Indian Plantation Households / Paul T. H. Chan -- 18. The Plantation School As an Agent of Social Reproduction / T. Marimuthu -- 19. Indian Squatter Settlers: Indian Rural-Urban Migration in West Malaysia / R. Rajoo -- 20. Urban Working-Class Indians in Malaysia / K. S. Susan Oorjitham
• 21. Religion and Ethnicity among the Indian Muslims of Malaysia / Judith Nagata -- 22. Social Change and Group Identity among the Sri Lankan Tamils / R. Rajakrishnan -- 23. Sikhs in Malaysia: A Society in Transition / Kernial Singh Sandhu -- 24. Indians in East Malaysia / D. S. Ranjit Singh -- 25. Some Aspects of Indians in Rangoon / Tin Maung and Maung Than -- 26. Indians in Burma: Problems of an Alien Subculture in a Highly Integrated Society / Khin Maung Kyi -- 27. The Legal Status of Indians in Contemporary Burma / Robert H. Taylor -- 28. Jairampur: A Profile of an Indian Community in Rural Burma / Mya Than -- 29. The Indian Community in the Philippines / Ajit Singh Rye -- 30. Indian Immigration and Settlement in Singapore / Kernial Singh Sandhu -- 31. Indians in Singapore Society / A. Mani -- 32. Spouse Selection Patterns in the Singapore Indian Community / Sharon Siddique and Nirmala Puru Shotam -- 33. Hinduism in Contemporary Singapore / Vineeta Sinha -- 34. Religious Fervour and Economic Success: The Chettiars of Singapore / Hans-Dieter Evers and Jayarani Pavadarayan -- 35. The Indian Population of Singapore: Some Implications for Development / G. Shantakumar -- 36. Indians in Thailand / A. Mani -- 37. Indian Communities in Bangkok: Pahurat and Ban-Kaek / Netnapis Nakavachara.

ISBN

• 9812100121 (pbk.)
• 9812100172 (hard)

LCCN

^^^93947101^

OCLC

• 29789660
• SCSB-11729947

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