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

1. Indian servitude in the British empire, Vinay Lal
2. Race, ethnicity and conflict in the Indian diaspora, Brij Maharaj
3. Writing indenture history through testimonios and oral narratives, Vijay Mishra
4. Coolitude meets indianité: Postcolonial kala pani writings in French, Brinda J. Mehta
5. Out of India: East Africa and its South Asian diasporas, Sana Aiyar

Part II: Diaspora and infrastructures

6. Labour policy and global Indian diaspora, SaunJuhi Verma
7. Paradigms, policies, and patterns of Indian diaspora investments, Daniel Naujoks
8. Transnational diaspora organizations and India's development, Rina Agarwala
9. Money flows, gender and family among Indian migrants to Australia, Supriya Singh

Part III: Cultural dynamics

10. Programming Bollywood: media and the Indian-American diaspora, 1965-2010, Aswin Punathambekar
11. Migratory South Asian performances: between nationalism and assimilation, Priya Srinivasan
12. Musical performances in the Indian diaspora, Tina K. Ramnarine
13. Transnational Bollywood assemblages in Singapore, Anjali Gera Roy
14. Diasporic visual vultures of Indian fashion and beauty, Vanita ReddyPart IV: Representation and identity
15. Poetic politics: from Ghadar to the Indian Workers' Association, Virinder S. Kalra
16. South Asian women and work in the diaspora, Tania Das Gupta
17. Of intersecting oppressions: domestic violence and the Indian diaspora, Rupaleem Bhuyan and Susan Ramsundarsingh
18. Celebrating Indian culture: festival spaces and entangled lives in Darwin, North Australia, Michele Lobo
19. Softening India abroad: representations of India and its diaspora in the Canadian Press, Huzan Dordi and Margaret Walton-Roberts

Part V: Politics of belonging

20. Renewing diasporic bonds and the global branding of India, Radha S. Hegde
21. Performing Indian American ethnicity in mainstream America, Bandana Purkayastha, Shweta Majumdar Adur and Koyel Khan
22. Home, belonging and the city in the Anglo-Indian diaspora, Jayani Bonnerjee
23. Memories and apprehensions: temporalities of queer South Asian belonging and activism in the diaspora, Shweta Majumdar Adur

Part VI: Networked subjectivities and transnationalism

24. Indians in Australia: understanding the changing face of a community, Michiel Baas
25. Networks, caste, and transnational identities, Goolam Vahed
26. Geographies of Indian transnationalism, Carmen Voigt-Graf
27. Of kaleidoscopic mothers and diasporic twists: the mother/daughter plot in the work of Jhumpa Lahiri, Delphine Munos
28. Diasporic subjectivity: of loss, memory, being, and becoming, Mala Pandurang

This book introduces readers to the contexts and histories that constitute the Indian diaspora. It brings together scholars from different parts of the globe, representing various disciplines, and covers extensive spatial and temporal terrain. Contributors draw from a variety of archives in order to map the narratives of the Indian diaspora.