India in New Zealand

In 'bi-cultural' New Zealand, people that originated from India have long been an invisible minority, rarely mentioned in New Zealand history books. Indians constitute the second-largest Asian-Kiwi group in population, having more than doubled in number between 1991 and 2001. This increasing diversity has initiated a fresh debate on New Zealand's changing national identity, with the emphasis shifting from its bicultural foundation to greater recognition of ethnic minorities within the nation-space. This book is the second contribution to remedy this historical silence, following the publication of Jacqueline Leckie's Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community. The first section introduces the context, briefly tracing the history of Empire and migration, which saw a few hundred adventurers from Gujarat and Punjab braving the seas and settling in New Zealand in the late 19th century. The second section critically addresses the issue of a distinctive and uniform 'Ne