ABSTRACT
Diasporic movements, which are essentially characterised by a larger scale than the early human migrations, were a creation of colonial rule. In many ways, colonialism changed the world order by introducing new concepts among the colonised people. It challenged national boundaries and induced rapid economic and technological changes. The features of a diaspora are dispersal of population from the homeland, retention of imagination of the homeland in collective memory, cultivation of a variety of myths about the homeland, partial assimilation in the host society, wish or hope to return to the homeland, some kind of commitment for restoration of prosperity of the homeland and continued interest in keeping linkages with the homeland. Migrants add to the social, cultural and linguistic diversity of the host society. The largely successful migration and adjustment of Nepalis wherever they migrated shows that they are good at reinterpreting their cultural symbols the way the Indians in Trinidad did.
