ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an introduction to the volume. In brief, the volume brings together an international network of scholars, both established and emerging, to explore South Asian diasporic communities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the U.K. The volume’s chapters show how digital spaces sometimes create unprecedented opportunities for diasporic communities to mobilise (multi)cultures, sexuality, race, and queerness within South Asian diasporic communities and to move beyond ‘Desi’ and ‘Brown’ as homogenising identifiers. The chapters also show that digital spaces can be and have been used to reassert internal hegemonies far from homelands. By way of a more grounded introduction to the topics of this volume, each of the volume editors details their personal political encounters with the realm of Indian digital diasporas. The introduction concludes with an overview of the volume’s chapters and postscript.
