02219nam a2200349 i 450000100060000000300090000600500170001500800410003201000170007302000180009002000180010802000180012602000180014403500130016204000330017504200080020804300120021605000240022808200180025210000280027024500750029824600180037326000390039130000470043050400670047752011760054452600080172065000380172865000390176665100240180585200400182944996BD-DhAAL20260702163003.0251102t2018    enkaf  f b    001 0 eng d  a  2019401825  a9781849049696  a9780702262623  z9780702263781  z9780702263798  a21332238  aDLCbengerdacDLCdBD-DhAAL  apcc  au-at---00aDU122.E17bK54 2019  a303.482942231 aKhatun, Samia,eauthor.10aAustralianama :bthe South Asian odyssey in Australia /cSamia Khatun.38aAustralianama  aLondon :bHurst Publishers,c2018.  axviii, 286 pages :billustrations ;c22 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.  aThe first major history of South Asian migration to Australia. Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonised by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian diaspora. Australianama (The Book of Australia) composes a history of Muslims in Australia through Sufi poetry, Urdu travel tales, Persian dream texts and Arabic concepts, as well as Wangkangurru song-poetry, Arabunna women's stories and Kuyani histories, leading readers through the rich worlds of non-white peoples that are missing from historical records. Khatun challenges a central idea that powerfully shapes history books across the Anglophone world: that European knowledge traditions are superior to the epistemologies of the colonised. Arguing that Aboriginal and South Asian language sources are keys to the vast, complex libraries that belie colonised geographies, Australianama shows that stories in colonised tongues can transform the very ground from which we view past, present and future.  aENH 0aEast IndianszAustraliaxHistory. 0aAcculturationzAustraliaxHistory. 0aAustraliaxHistory.  aAyesha Abed LibrarycGeneral Stacks