On Sindhi Bhaii Bandu Diaspora in the last two centuries

[Gul Agha <agha@CS.UIUC.EDU>]

(Poster's note: (I have not read the book, if someone has, please
share your opinion on it).

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Cosmopolitan Connections: The Sindhi Diaspora, 1860-2000
(International Comparative Social Studies, Vol. 9)
by MARK-ANTHONY FALZON

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Edition: Hardcover

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About the Author
Mark Anthony Falzon, Ph.D. (2001) in Social Anthropology, University
of Cambridge, is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge and a Lecturer
at the University of Malta. His research interests include migration,
diaspora, South Asia, and the anthropology of emotions.

Product Description:
This volume looks at a diasporic community of Indian traders. It draws
on anthropological field research as well as archival sources to
portray a cosmopolitan group united by ties of kinship and community
which are reproduced across space through processes such as the
circulation of women and family visiting. These ties have their
counterpart in the economic sphere which is characterised by sets of
translocal trading linkages, credit relations, and a heightened
knowledge of markets and a readiness to explore them. A model for the
relation between mobility and commerce is thus explored.

The book, which includes a number of maps and original photographs, is
ground-breaking in that it uses the technique of 'multi-sited
ethnography', in which data from different sites are juxtaposed into a
broad synthesis. It is geared towards a broad audience.