ABSTRACT

The Indian diaspora is one of the largest and most significant in the world today with between nine and twelve million people of Indian origin living outside South Asia. With successive waves of migration over the last two hundred years to almost every continent, it has assumed increasing self-consciousness and importance.
Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora examines the Indian diaspora in Mauritius, South Africa, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Trinidad, Australia, the US, Canada and the UK and addresses the core issues of demography, economy, culture and future development. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the crucial relationship between culture and economy in the diaspora over time.
This book will appeal to all those interested in transnational communities, migration, ethnicity and racial studies, and South Asia.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|20 pages

Chota Bharat, Mauritius: the myth and the reality

The myth and the reality Preamble

chapter 3|30 pages

Culture and economy

Tamils on the plantation frontier in Malaysia revisited, 1998–1999

chapter 4|21 pages

Diaspora and citizenship

Forgotten routes of identity in Lanka

chapter 5|21 pages

Culture and economy in an ‘incipient’ diaspora

Indians in the Persian Gulf region

chapter 7|23 pages

Indians at home in the Antipodes

Migrating with Ph.D.s, bytes or kava in their bags

chapter 8|18 pages

Indian immigrants in the United States

The emergence of a transnational population

chapter 9|14 pages

Imagining Indian diasporas in Canada

An epic without a text?