ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the history for the term diaspora and emphasis on the expansionist project is important, because the construction of the category of Nepali diaspora, it must hinge itself precisely on to the framework of the expansionist project made available by the scholars of diaspora. It explains about the colonial myth that has crafted the contours that define the popular mode in which the Nepali diaspora is largely construed, and encountered, by the significant other. The term myth immediately tends to trap us up in the engagement with truth. The notion of diaspora can begin its operation only through a reflexive idea of identifying the image as one's own and in the acceptance of the prescription that is entailed by the acceptance of this image. For a large section of the members claiming the identity of a Nepali diaspora, the diasporic image largely seems to be constituted by and/or anchored upon spatial and temporal memory markers.
