New frontiersmen
Aurora, G .S.
New frontiersmen - Bombay Popular Prakashan 1967 - 176p.
THE NEW FRONTIERSMEN were studied by me during 1957-59. It was a community of Indian workers living in a borough close to a large British city. I have given this borough the pseudonym of 'Greenend'. Although some of the Indians had lived in Green end for nearly eight years, but socially and demographically the community was yet going through its initial problems of settlement. There were few women amongst them and housing featured as the topmost problem for the fast growing Indian population. The book based on that research is seeing the light of print after nearly eight years of the completion of the thesis. It is but natural that during this period many a significant changes may have taken place in the Indian community of Greenend as well as the broader British society within which it was trying to carve a niché for itself. In some respects, there fore, the book is likely to be more of historical interest than a commentary on the existing situation.
In this work I have tried to answer such questions as; why are the Punjabis and particularly Sikhs more mobile than large number of other Indian communities?; what happens to the social structure of a group of migrants when their larger re ference group changes? what vicissitudes does the immigrant community go through in the early stages of its new life? what is likely to be the direction of its long term social adjustment policy?
I characterise the Punjabi immigrants of Greenend as fron tiersmen'. The reason for this is that among the Punjabis gene rally, and the Punjabi Sikh Jats particularly, I have noticed a certain 'expansive' spirit which is very akin to the spirit of the frontiersmen.
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New frontiersmen - Bombay Popular Prakashan 1967 - 176p.
THE NEW FRONTIERSMEN were studied by me during 1957-59. It was a community of Indian workers living in a borough close to a large British city. I have given this borough the pseudonym of 'Greenend'. Although some of the Indians had lived in Green end for nearly eight years, but socially and demographically the community was yet going through its initial problems of settlement. There were few women amongst them and housing featured as the topmost problem for the fast growing Indian population. The book based on that research is seeing the light of print after nearly eight years of the completion of the thesis. It is but natural that during this period many a significant changes may have taken place in the Indian community of Greenend as well as the broader British society within which it was trying to carve a niché for itself. In some respects, there fore, the book is likely to be more of historical interest than a commentary on the existing situation.
In this work I have tried to answer such questions as; why are the Punjabis and particularly Sikhs more mobile than large number of other Indian communities?; what happens to the social structure of a group of migrants when their larger re ference group changes? what vicissitudes does the immigrant community go through in the early stages of its new life? what is likely to be the direction of its long term social adjustment policy?
I characterise the Punjabi immigrants of Greenend as fron tiersmen'. The reason for this is that among the Punjabis gene rally, and the Punjabi Sikh Jats particularly, I have noticed a certain 'expansive' spirit which is very akin to the spirit of the frontiersmen.
Emigration and Immigration
325.2540942 Aur