Post-Diasporic Engagements New Perspectives on Indian Diasporas in the 21st Century

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List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface xxv
Acknowledgements

Part
Introduction
Introduction: The Post-Diasporic Engagements: New Perspectives on Indian Diasporas in the 21st Century SAJAUDEEN NIJAMODEEN CHAPPARBAN

Part II
Indian Diasporas: History and Contemporary Relevance
1 Goodbye Jewish Diaspora, Hello Indian Diaspora: An Unlikely Comparison
ROBIN COHEN
2 Jewish Indian Diaspora: A Comparative Inquiry into Birthland vs Homeland
WILLIAM F. S. MILES
3 Sepoy Soldiers’ Migration from India to the West Indies/Caribbean after Their Mutiny in 1857
KUMAR MAHABIR
4 The Indentured Literature: The Relevance in the 21st Century
AMAN SINGH MAHARAJ
5 Redefining Narratives: Women’s Agency and Resilience in the Indian Indenture System
GUNJA PATNI AND SHEEHAN S KHAN
6 Revisiting India through the Prism of Cultural Memory: Ruminations of Indian Indentured Labourers in South
Africa
ARIJIT MONDAL
7 Cherished Memories of the Early Second and Third Wave Migrants from Fiji
SHARNIT SHALVEEN GOSAI AND SUNIL KUMAR
8 Migration, Survival Strategies and Changing Behaviour: Representation of Trans-colonial Migrants in Malayalam
Literature
JIJI K. V.
9 Psychological Motivators of Migrant Exploitation: A Study of Indian Indentured Labourers and Descendant
Indo-Guyanese Migrants to Trinidad
SHALIMA MOHAMMED
10 The Qu’ayti Realm in Hyderabad and Hadhramaut, 1843–1948: A Case of Political Capitalism
CHRISTIAN LEKON

Part III
Socio-Economic and Political Perspectives
11 Indian Diaspora in the Gulf: The North Indian Experiences
ANISUR RAHMAN
12 Indian Diaspora as a Factor in India–Myanmar Relations
AMBA PANDE
13 Exploring the Implication of Male Migration to Gulf Countries on Women and Families in Northern Indian
Villages
AZIZUR RAHMAN AZAMI
14 Repositioning Diaspora Philanthropy between Promoting Development and Removing Inequality
BINOD KHADRIA
15 Indian Migrants in Oman: Issues and Opportunities
ISHTIYAQ AHMAD
16 Diaspora and Foreign Policy: An Appraisal of the Emerging Role of Indian Diaspora
SARITA BAG

Part IV
Minority Identities in Diaspora: Religion, Disability, Caste, and Gender
17 Understanding Diaspora through Urdu Poetry: Migration, Memory and Cultural Identity
SHUGUFTA SHAHEEN AND SHAH ALAM
18 Cultural Roots and Political Reach: Agency of Urdu Diaspora in International Relations
HABEEB PULPARAMBIL
19 Bhojpuri Diaspora in the United Arab Emirates: An Ethnographic Study about Its Impact and Consequences
MOHAMMED TAUKEER
20 Race, Religion, and Nationalism in the Diasporic Experience of Indian Muslims
GOOLAM VAHED
21 Diaspora, Institutions and Media Constructions of Historical Memory: The Settlement of South Asian
Ismaili Muslims in Canada
KARIM H. KARIM
22 Religion and Constructing Identities: A Generational Perspective on Sikh Diaspora in the Netherlands
ATINDER PAL KAUR
23 Changing Taste, Identity and Women Food Bloggers: A Study of Indian Diaspora in the United States
SINORITA MAZUMDER AND AJAILIU NIUMAI
24 Indian Diaspora and Disability: Mapping History,Culture and Memory in Madan Vasishta’s Deaf in DC:
A Memoir
MOHAIMINUL ISLAM
25 Indentured Women and Their Journey Crossing the ‘Kala Pani’
KALPANA HIRALAL
26 Mirroring Diversities: Caste and Gender in the South Asian Diaspora—Disjunctures and Possibilities   APARNA LANJEWAR BOSE

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Biography

Sajaudeen Nijamodeen Chapparban is an Assistant Professor of Diaspora Studies at the Central University of Gujarat, India. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Illinois, Brandeis University, University of Religions and Denominations, Iran; the University of Connecticut, USA; the University of Wyoming, USA; and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem. His research focuses on diaspora, migration, refugees, culture, identity, languages, and literature of the diaspora. His recent publications include Literature of Girmitya: History, Culture, and Identity (2023), co-edited with Neha Singh and a research article, “Transnational Subalternity: A Sub Theory within
Subaltern Studies and the Post Migration Experience” (2024).

This volume offers a critical rethinking of diaspora through the framework of post-diasporic engagements. Focusing on Indian diasporic experiences, essays in this book examine how diasporic subjects actively negotiate identity, power, and participation across transnational spaces shaped by processes of globalisation, inequality, and technological advancements. By foregrounding agency, hybridity, and everyday practices of engagement, this volume moves beyond symbolic notions of homeland to explore lived, multi-sited, multi-layered experiences of Indian diasporic communities. With attention to internal diversities and minority perspectives—such as caste, religion, gender, and disability—this book opens new directions in contemporary diaspora and global studies.

 

-          Prof. Amit Kumar Mishra,

Ambedkar University Delhi, India.

Fellow, Royal Historical Society UK.