Description:
Since the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in the United States has grown dramatically. During the same period, the make-up of this community has also changed--the highly educated professional elite who came to this...
Brief description: Madhulika S. Khandelwal is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies in the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Review Quotes:
In acknowledging her involvement with the immigrant communities in Queens as 'participant observation, ' Khandelwal subtly frames her position or, perhaps more directly, her level of interest in the issues significant to that portion of the Indian immigrant population in New York City area.... Khandelwal distinguishes the differences in how Indian immigrants occupying different socio-economic positions in the United States transplant their cultural practices.... The suggestion here is that the cultural activities of upper-class Indians, coupled with their absence from Queens neighborhoods where the concentration of Indian immigrants is the highest in the country, functionally set them apart from a growing and perhaps more vibrant culturally 'real' experiences of being Indian American.
--Cara N. Cilano, University of North Caroline at Wilmington "South Asian Review"