... should be required reading for anyone interested in the development of South Asian or other diaspora communities... Werbner's grasp of the complexity of identities, issues of citizenship, and the interplay of local and global affairs, in sustaining local cultures as messy, idiosyncratic and often disunited, lived realities, is superb. -

• Villains and heroes in a game of honour; the fables of the blindfolded ox and the blue jackal; commemorating the great leader - exemplary personhood and myths of nation; narrating community; the aesthetics of the religious imagination; "The Satanic Verses" - allegories of sacred imperfection; involking the "umma"; being South Asian - fun spaces, cricket and other celebrations; factionalism and violence - connecting social spaces; conclusion -the diasporic public sphere; appendix - Mosques in Manchester.

... should be required reading for anyone interested in the development of South Asian or other diaspora communities... Werbner's grasp of the complexity of identities, issues of citizenship, and the interplay of local and global affairs, in sustaining local cultures as messy, idiosyncratic and often disunited, lived realities, is superb. -

• Villains and heroes in a game of honour; the fables of the blindfolded ox and the blue jackal; commemorating the great leader - exemplary personhood and myths of nation; narrating community; the aesthetics of the religious imagination; "The Satanic Verses" - allegories of sacred imperfection; involking the "umma"; being South Asian - fun spaces, cricket and other celebrations; factionalism and violence - connecting social spaces; conclusion -the diasporic public sphere; appendix - Mosques in Manchester.

... should be required reading for anyone interested in the development of South Asian or other diaspora communities... Werbner's grasp of the complexity of identities, issues of citizenship, and the interplay of local and global affairs, in sustaining local cultures as messy, idiosyncratic and often disunited, lived realities, is superb. -

• Villains and heroes in a game of honour; the fables of the blindfolded ox and the blue jackal; commemorating the great leader - exemplary personhood and myths of nation; narrating community; the aesthetics of the religious imagination; "The Satanic Verses" - allegories of sacred imperfection; involking the "umma"; being South Asian - fun spaces, cricket and other celebrations; factionalism and violence - connecting social spaces; conclusion -the diasporic public sphere; appendix - Mosques in Manchester.