ABSTRACT
This chapter is an exploratory contribution to research on the ‘Indian business diaspora’. It begins from an hypothesis that the nature of the diaspora has been changing under the influence of the pressures built up in the processes of internationalising – ‘globalising’ – activities and opportunities in the world economy. It argues that the changing situation of the diaspora due to globalisation makes it possible for new forms of activity, new types of organisations and differently situated players to be accommodated within the diaspora’s social and economic ‘space’ and that the new forms of operation which follow from that can now be sustained within ‘the diaspora’.
