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This book critically examines new perspectives on the transformations in Indian diaspora. It studies the changing perspectives on the historical background of the Indian diaspora and analyses fresh and emerging views in response to new configurations in diaspora relations.
List of contents
1. Introduction: New Forces, New Perspectives in the Indian diaspora Part 1: Historical Perspectives 2. Indian and Chinese Global Networks 3. The Ending of Indian Indentured Emigration. The Road to 2017 4. Towards theorising the Girmitiya Diaspora: Beyond ‘Persistence’ and ‘Change’ Part 2: Emerging perspectives 5. Hindu Nationalism and Indian American Diasporic Mobilizations 6. Interrogating a ‘Diasporic’ Lens: Narrating Singapore’s Indian Communities 7. Indians in Africa: Roots, Recognition and Racial Nationalism 8. Changing Dynamics of Indian Diaspora in the Gulf Region Part 3: Global Forces 9. Indian Diaspora Economics: The Entanglement of Economics with Culture 10. Hindutva in Western Societies: Entanglements and Paradoxes
About the author
Ruben Gowricharn is Professor of Indian Diaspora Studies at the VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on diasporas, democracy and the integration of ethnic minorities. He has edited several books including Shifting Transnational Bonding in Indian Diaspora (2020) and Political Integration in Indian Diaspora Societies (2020) and is the author of Multiple Homemaking: The Ethnic Condition in Indian Diaspora Societies (2020). He is also the managing director of a doctoral programme for adult migrant students in the Netherlands and Suriname.
Summary
This book critically examines new perspectives on the transformations in Indian diaspora. It studies the changing perspectives on the historical background of the Indian diaspora and analyses fresh and emerging views in response to new configurations in diaspora relations.
