ABSTRACT

This volume examines Indian diasporic communities in various countries including the United Kingdom, Trinidad, Portugal, Netherlands, and Fiji, among others, and presents new perspectives on the shifting nature of Indian transnationalism.

The book:

  • Discusses how migrant communities reinforce the diaspora and retain a group identity, while at the same time maintaining a bond with their homelands;
  • Highlights new tendencies in the configuration of Indian transnationalism, especially cultural entanglements with the host countries and the differentiation of homelands;
  • Studies forces affecting bonding among these communities such as global and local encounters, glocalisation, as well as economic, political, and cultural changes within the Indian state and the wider Indian diaspora.

Featuring a diverse collection of essays rooted in robust fieldwork, this volume will be of great importance for students and researchers of diaspora studies, globalization and transnational migration, cultural studies, minority studies, sociology, political studies, international relations, and South Asian studies.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

Shifts in transnational bonding

part I|80 pages

Global and Local Encounters

chapter 2|19 pages

Re-Reading the Banyan Tree Analogy

Everyday life and identity of Indian diaspora in Britain

chapter 3|22 pages

Reconfiguring Identity in a Transnational World

Indo-Trinidadians and the construction of Indianness

chapter 4|20 pages

From Nationalism to Hindutva

Bollywood and the makings of the Hindu diasporic woman

chapter 5|17 pages

Understanding Indian Diaspora and Economic Development

Opportunities and challenges

part III|50 pages

Regional Transnationalism

chapter 9|16 pages

Baithak Gáná Ke Nác

A case of reverse glocalisation

chapter 10|18 pages

Fijian-Indian Diaspora

Emergence, engagement and identity in the transnational world

chapter 11|14 pages

Idea of Homeland/s

Hadramis of Barkas in the Persian Gulf