Shaping Indian Diaspora

The Indian diaspora is the largest diasporic movement from Asia, with the Indian community numbering over twenty-five million around the world. Its large scale encompasses a kaleidoscopic community from disparate regions, languages, cultural heritages, religions, and traditions within the subcontinent. The many peoples of the Indian diaspora have growing social and economic impacts on their new homes, but maintain their cultural bonds with India.
This volume offers a thorough analysis of the diasporic practices of the Indian communities in essays covering a number of fields, such as literature, cultural studies, and film studies. The contributors deal with the Indian diaspora’s historical and contemporary connotations, its theoretical framework, the cultural hybridizations that emerge from diaspora, and other topics touching on the cultural and social effects of the spread of Indian peoples around the globe.

Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández is associate professor in the Department of English and German at the University of Córdoba. Veena Dwivedi is assistant professor of English at Feroze Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Introduction: Shaping Indian Diaspora, or the Instability of Human Morphoses, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández and Veena Dwivedi Part I. Home Diaspora after Indian Partition Chapter 1: Stories of Hasan Azizul Huq and the Shaping of Indian Diaspora in post-Partition India, M. Rakibul Hasan Khan Part II. Great Britain and Scotland Chapter 2: "Seeing Through a Glass": Diasporic Identity in Vikram Seth's Two Lives, Mélanie Heydari Chapter 3: Roots and Routes in Meera Syal's Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Mounir Guirat Chapter 4: Indo-Scottish Cultural Flows: Bashabi Fraser and the Streams of Identity, Carla Rodríguez González Part III. United States of America Chapter 5: Rice and Fish: Food Rituals and Women in Lahiri's The Namesake and Divakaruni's The Vine of Desire, Paromita Deb Chapter 6: The Ebb and Flow of Homecoming-The Nature of Diasporic Existence in The Hungry Tide,Kinga Földváry Chapter 7: Historicizing Diaspora, Multiculturalism, and Migration in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke, Julia Hoydis Part IV. Canada Chapter 8: Diaspora Identity in Kim and The Cat's Table, Judith Caesar Part V. Australia and New Zealand Chapter 9: Alternative Literary Spaces: India in the Antipodes, Alejandra Moreno Álvarez Chapter 10: Outside, Inside, and Somewhere In Between: Laughter and the Indian Diasporic Experience in A House for Mr Biswas and The White Tiger,Adele Holoch Part VI. Bollywood and Diaspora Chapter 11: Little Indias: Diasporic Communities in the US and the Consumption of Bollywood, Keith M. Corson