ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights how ideas of home and belonging may be thought through the city, and highlights the importance of urban space as a key location of diasporic identity for the Anglo-Indian community. Within the unease amongst Anglo-Indians to articulate a sense of belonging and identity tied to a particular place, this chapter draws from research that focuses on the city as a space of home for minority communities. Whilst the film 36 Chowringhee Lane is representative of a narrative of loss that focuses on Anglo-Indians who have stayed back in India, the community in diaspora has actively promoted a resurgent Anglo-Indian identity through practices of belonging. Two key ideas underpin the connections between home, city and diaspora for the Anglo-Indian community. First, the city acts as an affective register of belonging, often in contrast to the less homely space of the nation for these minority communities. Second, the city is also a space where dense networks of memories converge.
