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In the Malay World - Gazi Mizanur Rahman

In the Malay World

A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community
Buch | Hardcover
318 Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-44609-9 (ISBN)
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Reconstructs the history of Bengali migration and their transnational community and addresses the lacuna between Bengali historical migration and their current migration to Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. The book discusses the connectivity between Bengal and Malaya, the governance of Bengali migration, and their space-making in multifaceted ways.
Based on various archival and non-archival records, oral testimonies and travel accounts, some of which are used for the first time, this book explores the historical migration of Bengalis and their diasporic experiences in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, covering a period from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Despite the tremendous historical mobility of the Bengalis in the Malay world and their contemporary salience, as reflected in the region's more-than-a-million-strong Bengali diaspora, their historical contribution remains almost unseen. This book addresses this lacuna by exploring the connections between Bengal and Malaya. The book further examines the formation of a Bengali social, political, economic and cultural space within the diverse South Asian diaspora during the colonial and postcolonial periods. The study contributes to the recent flourishing of mobility studies, cosmopolitanism, ethnic studies, connected histories and transnational histories in modern Asia.

Gazi Mizanur Rahman teaches at the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh and the North South University, Bangladesh. His research focuses on various areas, including connected histories between South and Southeast Asia, world history, ethnic identity studies, mobility studies, and transnational history. He has worked as a researcher at the BRAC University in Dhaka.

Maps; Tables; Figures; Graphs; Abbreviations; Glossary; Notes on Weighing Scale; Notes on Place Names; Acknowledgements; Prelude; 1. Contexts, Routes and Nodal Points; 2. The Bengali: Terminological Ambiguity and Demographic Profile; 3. The Governance of Migration and Diaspora; 4. Professionals and the Working Class; 5. In the World of Trade and Commerce; 6. Tales of Tears, Fears, and Pleasures; 7. The Making of a Diasporic Space: Social and Political Dimensions; 8. The Making of a Diasporic Space: The Civil Society; Epilogue; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Global South Asians
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 574 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-009-44609-6 / 1009446096
ISBN-13 978-1-009-44609-9 / 9781009446099
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