Indians and the antipodes : networks, boundaries, and circulation / edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Jane Buckingham.

Introduction Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Jane Buckingham -- 1. Identity and invisibility: early Indian presence in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1769-1850 Todd Nachowitz -- 2. Circuitous routes: journeys from India to Australia by way of the sugar colonies Margaret Allen -- 3. Naming charlie: inscribing British India identities with white Australia, 1901-40 kama Maclean -- 4. Indian migration to New Zealand in the 1920s: deciphering the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act, 1920 Michael Roche and Sita Venkateswar -- 5. Totaram Sanadhya's experience of racism in early white Australia: a transcreated narrative Purushottama Bilimoria -- 6. 'Not as a stranger or a tourist': Leonora Gmeiner and the first girls' school in Delhi Devleena Ghosh and heather Goodall -- 7. 'Did you know your great-grandmother was an Indian princess?' early anglo-Indian arrivals in New Zealand Robyn Andrews -- 8. 'A rich tapestry': the life and heritage o fSir Anand Satyanand JHacqueline Leckie -- 9. Class and caste consciousness: the narratives of Indian subcontinental diaspora in Australia Amit Sarwal -- 10. Negotiating Indianness: Auckland's shifting cultural festivities Alison Booth -- Editors and contributors -- Index.

This book looks at the history of Indian migrants in Australia and New Zealand over a period of two and a half centuries. It looks at the history of their migration, settlement and encounter with racism. However, this book is not just about the diaspora; it is also about circulation of ideas between the Antipodes and India, both being parts of the British Empire and the Commonwealth.