Ajaya K. Sahoo is Professor and Head of the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India. His teaching and research interests include international migration, South Asian diaspora, and transnationalism. He is the editor of the journal South Asian Diaspora (Taylor & Francis).

• Introduction 1. Exorcising Traumas: Jude Ratnam’s Demons in Paradise 2. Ambivalent Identities and Liminal Spaces: Reconfiguration of National and Diasporic Identity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist 3. The Twice-displaced: Mapping Alternative Diasporic Identities in Works by Ananda Devi and Nathacha Appanah 4. Tantric Hinduism and ‘Kinky America’ in Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru 5. Delusion and Defeat in the Short-story Sequence ‘Hema and Kaushik’ from Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth 6. Scrutinising the Past: A Review of Socio‐literary Narratives of the East African Asian Diasporic Experience 7. A Journey through Places: Politics of Spatial Location in the Stories of South Asian Diaspora in Australia 8. Re-imagining the Komagata Maru incident: Canadian history through Fiction and Film 9. Multi-dimensional Perspectives of South Indian Coolie Life in Selected Memoirs by the European Plantocracy of Colonial Malaya

Ajaya K. Sahoo is Professor and Head of the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India. His teaching and research interests include international migration, South Asian diaspora, and transnationalism. He is the editor of the journal South Asian Diaspora (Taylor & Francis).

• Introduction 1. Exorcising Traumas: Jude Ratnam’s Demons in Paradise 2. Ambivalent Identities and Liminal Spaces: Reconfiguration of National and Diasporic Identity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist 3. The Twice-displaced: Mapping Alternative Diasporic Identities in Works by Ananda Devi and Nathacha Appanah 4. Tantric Hinduism and ‘Kinky America’ in Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru 5. Delusion and Defeat in the Short-story Sequence ‘Hema and Kaushik’ from Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth 6. Scrutinising the Past: A Review of Socio‐literary Narratives of the East African Asian Diasporic Experience 7. A Journey through Places: Politics of Spatial Location in the Stories of South Asian Diaspora in Australia 8. Re-imagining the Komagata Maru incident: Canadian history through Fiction and Film 9. Multi-dimensional Perspectives of South Indian Coolie Life in Selected Memoirs by the European Plantocracy of Colonial Malaya

Ajaya K. Sahoo is Professor and Head of the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India. His teaching and research interests include international migration, South Asian diaspora, and transnationalism. He is the editor of the journal South Asian Diaspora (Taylor & Francis).

• Introduction 1. Exorcising Traumas: Jude Ratnam’s Demons in Paradise 2. Ambivalent Identities and Liminal Spaces: Reconfiguration of National and Diasporic Identity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist 3. The Twice-displaced: Mapping Alternative Diasporic Identities in Works by Ananda Devi and Nathacha Appanah 4. Tantric Hinduism and ‘Kinky America’ in Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru 5. Delusion and Defeat in the Short-story Sequence ‘Hema and Kaushik’ from Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth 6. Scrutinising the Past: A Review of Socio‐literary Narratives of the East African Asian Diasporic Experience 7. A Journey through Places: Politics of Spatial Location in the Stories of South Asian Diaspora in Australia 8. Re-imagining the Komagata Maru incident: Canadian history through Fiction and Film 9. Multi-dimensional Perspectives of South Indian Coolie Life in Selected Memoirs by the European Plantocracy of Colonial Malaya