Indian Transnationalism

Ajaya K. Sahoo is Professor and Head of the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora at the University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. His research interests include diaspora, transnationalism, religion, and identity. He is the Editor of the journal South Asian Diaspora.Anindita Shome is an Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India. Her research interests include diaspora, transnationalism, gender, and literary studies.Shazia Khan is an Assistant Professor of English at Malla Reddy University, Hyderabad, and Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Her research sits at the intersections of migration, cultural identity, and sonic traditions. She specializes in Indo-Caribbean music, examining how sound shapes diasporic memory and belonging across transnational spaces.Surabhi K. is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Her research interests include culture, religion, globalization, diaspora, and transnationalism, and she has published extensively on those areas.

Diaspora is not a category to contain people but a subjectivity forged in power. Attentive to gender, voice, and the silences within the community, this important book compellingly explores how Indian transnational belonging is contested, negotiated, and orchestrated.Professor Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster, UKThis is a well-written collection of essays that offers fascinating empirical studies and theoretical discussions of Indian transnationalism in the twenty-first century and of belonging and identity in the global Indian diasporas.Professor Knut A. Jacobsen, University of Bergen, NorwayIndian transnationalism is an important intervention in identity and belonging. The authors not only construct an identity but, by keeping the Indian diaspora at the center, explore a discourse of dual history, in which the idea of the homeland and the experience of the homeland are, respectively, two separate worlds.Professor Ashutosh Kumar, Banaras Hindu University, IndiaIndian identity is continually evolving, both in India and in its global diaspora. Indian Transnationalism traces these transformations through digital worlds, gendered struggles, diasporic organizations, sacred performances, and Indo-Caribbean soundscapes. Richly interdisciplinary, this book is a valuable resource for scholars and university students alike.Professor Stephen Christopher, King’s College London, UK

• Introduction 1. Diaspora, Transnationalism and Ethnonational Identity 2. Diaspora and Rethinking of Homeland 3. Diaspora and South Asian Youth Organizations 4. Gender, Identities, and Virtual Spaces 5. Diaspora, Music and Identity 6. Evolution and Transformation of Indo-Caribbean Music 7. Diaspora, Music, and Transnationalism 8. Diaspora, Religion, and Identity 9. Theyyam Performances in the Indian Diaspora 10. Localization to Globalization