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