03319nam a2200409 i 4500 44996 BD-DhAAL 20251102101733.0 251102t2018 enkaf f b 001 0 eng d 2019401825 9781849049696 9780702262623 9780702263781 9780702263798 21332238 DLC eng rda DLC BD-DhAAL pcc u-at--- DU122.E17 K54 2019 303.48294 23 Khatun, Samia, author. 59776 Australianama : the South Asian odyssey in Australia / Samia Khatun. Australianama London : Hurst Publishers, 2018. xviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index. The 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. ENH Gazi Md. Mizanur Rahman Assistant Professor, Department of English and Humanities BRAC University Course name: Global Migration & Transnational Community (HST 408) Book Finder International 44996, 44997 East Indians Australia History. 59777 Acculturation Australia History. 59778 Australia History. 59779 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 47615 47615 0 0 ddc 0 303_482940000000000_KHA 0 78416 BRACUL BRACUL NEW 2025-10-27 Book Finder International 4278.00 0 303.48294 KHA 3010044996 2025-10-27 1 8556.00 2025-10-27 BK Requisitioned by Gazi Md. Mizanur Rahman (Assistant Professor, Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University) for the course named- 'Global Migration & Transnational Community (HST 408)' 0 0 ddc 0 303_482940000000000_KHA 0 78417 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2025-10-27 Book Finder International 4278.00 0 303.48294 KHA 3010044997 2025-10-27 2 8556.00 2025-10-27 BK Requisitioned by Gazi Md. Mizanur Rahman (Assistant Professor, Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University) for the course named- 'Global Migration & Transnational Community (HST 408)'