Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora

Radha Sarma Hegde is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, U.S. Her research interests focus on issues of migration, transnational feminism, globalization and media. She is the author of Mediating Migration (2016), and currently co-editor of the journal Feminist Media Studies. Ajaya Kumar Sahoo is Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India. His research interests include Indian diaspora and transnationalism. His recent co-edited books include Indian Transnationalism Online (2014) and Transnational Migrations (2009). He is the editor of the journal South Asian Diaspora.

Introduction, Radha S. Hegde and Ajaya K. Sahoo

Part I: Histories and trajectories






Indian servitude in the British empire, Vinay Lal



Race, ethnicity and conflict in the Indian diaspora, Brij Maharaj



Writing indenture history through testimonios and oral narratives, Vijay Mishra
Coolitude meets indianité: Postcolonial kala pani writings in French, Brinda J. Mehta



Out of India: East Africa and its South Asian diasporas, Sana Aiyar
Part II: Diaspora and infrastructures




Labour policy and global Indian diaspora, SaunJuhi Verma



Paradigms, policies, and patterns of Indian diaspora investments, Daniel Naujoks



Transnational diaspora organizations and India’s development, Rina Agarwala



Money flows, gender and family among Indian migrants to Australia, Supriya Singh
Part III: Cultural dynamics




Programming Bollywood: media and the Indian-American diaspora, 1965-2010, Aswin Punathambekar



Migratory South Asian performances: between nationalism and assimilation, Priya Srinivasan



Musical performances in the Indian diaspora, Tina K. Ramnarine



Transnational Bollywood assemblages in Singapore, Anjali Gera Roy



Diasporic visual vultures of Indian fashion and beauty, Vanita ReddyPart IV: Representation and identity



Poetic politics: from Ghadar to the Indian Workers’ Association, Virinder S. Kalra



South Asian women and work in the diaspora, Tania Das Gupta



Of intersecting oppressions: domestic violence and the Indian diaspora, Rupaleem Bhuyan and Susan Ramsundarsingh



Celebrating Indian culture: festival spaces and entangled lives in Darwin, North Australia, Michele Lobo



Softening India abroad: representations of India and its diaspora in the Canadian Press, Huzan Dordi and Margaret Walton-Roberts
Part V: Politics of belonging




Renewing diasporic bonds and the global branding of India, Radha S. Hegde



Performing Indian American ethnicity in mainstream America, Bandana Purkayastha, Shweta Majumdar Adur and Koyel Khan



Home, belonging and the city in the Anglo-Indian diaspora, Jayani Bonnerjee



Memories and apprehensions: temporalities of queer South Asian belonging and activism in the diaspora, Shweta Majumdar Adur
Part VI: Networked subjectivities and transnationalism




Indians in Australia: understanding the changing face of a community, Michiel Baas



Networks, caste, and transnational identities, Goolam Vahed



Geographies of Indian transnationalism, Carmen Voigt-Graf



Of kaleidoscopic mothers and diasporic twists: the mother/daughter plot in the work of Jhumpa Lahiri, Delphine Munos



Diasporic subjectivity: of loss, memory, being, and becoming, Mala Pandurang