ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the international seminar Indian transnationalism online: ethnographic explorations in Hyderabad in 2012 and explores the ethnographic explorations of virtual spaces. It shows how the users and editors of the Indernet relate to the concepts of Indian and German. The Indernet was a transnational space in the sense of catering for the multiple natio-ethno-cultural belongingness of its user and giving them the possibility to jointly imagine their belongingness to India in German-speaking Europe. The path to the Indernet began by getting involved in seminars for second generation Indians organised by the Indo-German society (DIG) since 1994. The chapter explains research about people who are marked as Indians. It means people considered on the basis of some physiognomic and/or social markers to be Indians and considers themselves being Indians. As the ascriptions are specific to particular spatial and temporal contexts, it is necessary to further specify the latter: in research this is contemporary German-speaking Europe.
