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The book, "Global South Asians: Introducing the modern Diaspora" by Judith Brown, tells the story of the South Asian diaspora, which began in the 1800s. Many South Asians left their home countries to seek economic opportunities, but many also left because they were forced to do so. Brown discusses the different communities of South Asians in the diaspora, how they have interacted with their home countries, and how they have maintained ties to their families. The book is written for a general audience and is useful for students of South Asian and colonial history, migration studies, and sociology.
By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century, many left reluctantly to seek economic opportunities which were lacking at home. This is the story of their often painful experiences in the diaspora, how they constructed new social communities overseas and how they maintained connections with the countries and the families they had left behind. It is a story compellingly told by one of the premier historians of modern South Asia, Judith Brown, whose particular knowledge of the diaspora in Britain and South Africa gives her insight as a commentator. This is a book which will have a broad appeal to general readers as well as to students of South Asian and colonial history, migration studies and sociology.
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