Culture and Emotional Economy of Migration

Badri Narayan is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He previously taught at the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad. His research interests range from popular culture, social and anthropological history to Dalit and subaltern issues. Writing in English and Hindi, Narayan is the author of Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits (2014), The Making of the Dalit Public in North India: Uttar Pradesh, 1950–Present (2011), Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation (2009), and Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India (2006). He has been the recipient of the Fulbright Senior Fellowship (2004–5) and the Smuts Fellowship, University of Cambridge (2007).

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Who migrated and why: the bidesia story 2. Bidesia and settlement histories in Suriname (With Maurits Hassankhan) 3.Double Migration and the process of readjustment: Hindustanis from Suriname to the Netherlands (With Chitra Gajadin) 4. Bidesia folk culture in the triangle: Bhojpuri region of India, Suriname and the Netherlands (With Narinder Mohkamsingh) 5.Still they are migrating: contemporary migration from Bhojpuri region 6. Migration and cultural productions: documenting history of cultural practices 7. Migration and politics. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index