List of Tables
List of Images
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
Introduction: “Life out of Coorg Makes Kids Cosmopolitan”
Some Key Terms
Who Are the Coorgs?
Why the Coorgs?
Methodology and Methods
Research Sites
Overview of the Chapters
Chapter 1
Mapping Kodavathee Immigrant Mothering in Modernity
Feminist Reconstructions of Motherhood
Literature on Mothering in Modernity
Cultural Contradictions of Intensive Motherhood and New Momism
Risk, Responsibility, and Consumption
New Maternalisms
Immigrant Mothering
Motherhood in the Motherland
The Ambivalent Quintessence of New Indian Womanhood
Speculating on the Cultural Contradictions of New Indian Mothers
Motherhood among Kodavathees – Matrescence among a “Martial” “Race”
Contributing Framing Devices of Grounded, Everyday New Cosmopolitanisms and Transnationalisms
Cosmopolitanism, Modernity, and Mothering
Chapter 2
Prenatal Rites of Passage; Kuppadis and Baby Showers
The Kuppadi
The Baby Shower
Australia: “Joint Kuppadis” as the “Coorg Baby Shower”
Singapore: Trumping the “Even the Bangalore People” by Going the Extra Mile
India: Different Spheres; Kuppadi: Baby Showers; Family: Friends
Discussion and Conclusion
Chapter 3
Postpartum Practices for Pettavva, Pujas, and Cord Burials
Postpartum
Australia
Singapore
India
Naming Ceremony and Ganga Puja
Australia
Singapore
India
Umbilical Cord Burial
Australia
Singapore
India
Conclusions
Chapter 4
Cultural Consumption; Risk, Mothering Manuals, and Motherlines
Reading How to Be Pregnant Onwards in Risk Society
What (Not) to Expect and the (Un)common Sense Book
Australia
Singapore
India
Conclusions
Chapter 5
“Aspects of Our Ancestors”; Naming Practices
Kodava Pedha (Name): Selfhood, Culture, and Kinship
Australia
Singapore
India
Uttered Care
Chapter 6
“That’s Probably My Biggest Worry … the Language Thing”: Gendered Mother Tongue Maintenance
Australia
i. Unworkable
ii. Workable with English
Singapore
i. Outsourcing
ii. Homely or Foreign? Let’s Try Code
India
i. Effect of School
ii. It Takes a Village
Linguistic Care
Chapter 7
Romanticized and Rationalized Recipes for “Coorg-ness”: Firsts and Family Foods
First Foods
Ragi: Australia
Ragi: Singapore
Ragi: India
Bondu
Gendered and Ethnicized Feeding Work: Cooking Up “Home”
Woman as Food, Food as Mother
Australia
Singapore
India: “Both Children Love Their Pandi Curry. We Have Help at Home” (Anitha)
Conclusions
Chapter 8
Emplacement and Festival Food: “How to Tell All They Do Is Make Pork and Drink?”
Kailpodh
Kaveri Shankramana
Putthari
Emplacement and Affiliation
Australia
Singapore
India
Other (Pan-Indian and Local) Festivals
Australia
Singapore
India
Conclusions
Chapter 9
Transnational Maternal Emotional Labour and Its Extensions
Coorg Core Values and Modalities of Care
Connection to Family and Home
Respect for the Elderly: Touching Feet (Kaal Pudi)
Hospitality
Gendered Translocal and Transnational Circulation of Care
Visits Home to Achieve Co-presence
Care from Kin/(Grand)mothers(-in-law)
Kinwork through New/Instant Communication Technologies
Gendered Extra-community Care
The Maternal Emotional Labour of Extended Moral Community
Conclusion
Cosmopolitan Maternalisms and Modern Coorg Outlooks
Cosmopolitan Maternalisms
Modern Coorg Outlooks
Image References
References
Appendices
Glossary
Index
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