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This book offers an insight to the Armenian diasporic communities in India through the lens of diaspora studies. It focuses on the dynamic of the communities within urban spaces, their affiliations and affinities within and beyond their 'memory' and highlights complexities of the Armenian diasporic communities in India. It studies identity transformations through time and space and how the community integrated with the society in the host country. It also underlines how cultural, linguistic and political transformations in India, from being part of the British Empire to Independence, helped form a critical consciousness among the Armenian communities settled there. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of migration and diaspora studies, South Caucasian, South Asian History and the History of East by and large.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1. Theoretical Contestations on 'Diaspora'
Chapter 2 The Emergence of the Armenian Trade Diaspora in India: Different Modalities of the Diasporic Being within the Empire in the 17th-18th centuries2.1. Emergence of the Armenian Trade Diaspora
2.2. The "Middlemen": Different Modalities of the Diasporic Being within the Empire
Chapter 3 Emergence of Nationalist Texts within the Armenian diasporic community in India (18th-19th centuries) 3.1. Contestations on 'Nation' and 'Nationalism'
3.2. Reading Azdarar and the Autobiography of Joseph Emin
3.3. Trap of Glory as the institutionalization of Republican Constitutionalism
Chapter 4 Ideas of Home and Nation within the Armenian Community in India in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Reflections on Genocide 4.1. The study of the Armenian diasporic community through the Census: late 19th and early 20th centuries
4.2. Overview of the Armenian Genocide: Indian Media Response
4.3. The Armenian Association of Calcutta and the Need for a Political Paper
Chapter 5 Understanding Complex Diasporic Identity among the Armenians in Calcutta (Kolkata) 5.1. The Armenian Church: Shifting Centres
5.2. Diasporic Identity of the Armenians in Calcutta
Conclusion
About the author
Ani Yeremyan (Dr.) holds PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was granted a scholarship by ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) to carry out her research in India that was on the Armenian Diasporic Community in India. Dr. Ani Yeremyan is also a member of Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism as well as a member of the Editorial Committee of the Newsletter "Roots and Routes". She has written papers and delivered numerous talks on the Armenian diaspora in India as well as the Armenian Diaspora in general and digital diasporas at number of international conferences both in Armenia and India. Her latest chapter entitled "Transnational Experience: The Armenian Diasporic Community in the US" was published in the edited volume Migration and the Rise of the United States: The Role of Old and New Diasporas. In 2023, Dr. Ani Yeremyan started her career as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, currently serving at the Embassy of Armenia in India.
