Tracing the New Indian Diaspora

Om Prakash Dwivedi is Assistant Professor in English at Taiz University, Yemen. His recent publications include The Other India: Narratives of Terror, Communalism and Violence (2012), Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age (with Martin Kich, 2013), and a collection of short stories, The World to Come (2014).

"Wideranging and scholarly. Dwivedi’s edited collection on routes and representations of the Indian diaspora is a vital contribution to the growing critical discourse on this subject." – Professor Janet Wilson, Northampton University"Tracing the New Indian Diaspora is a significant contribution to the understanding of the positions and representations of the Indian diaspora, forcing us to re-examine our notions of location and dislocation, of home and the world, of belonging and alienation: in short, of the politics of the diaspora today." – Professor G.J.V. Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University

• Acknowledgements“Introducing the New Indian Diaspora”, Om Prakash DwivediTracing the Indian Diaspora“The Political PIO: Thoughts on the Political Impact of the Indian Diaspora”, Pierre Gottschlich“Hambakhaya! Hambauyee Bombay! [Go Home! Go to Bombay!] – Challenges Facing South African Indians in the Post-Apartheid Era”, Brij Maharaj“Indians in Malaysia, 1900–2010: Different Migration Streams, One Diaspora”, Amarji T Kaur“The New Irish? Indian Diasporas in Ireland”, Louise Harrington“Giving Back to India: Investment Opportunities and Challenges”, Anjali Sahay“Certain Allegiances, Uncertain Identities: The Fraught Struggles of Dalits in Britain”, Meena Dhanda“The Indian Diaspora in New Zealand: Identities and Cultural Representations”, Wardlow Friesen“Finding Refuge in Culture: Race, Place, and Immigrant Identity in the Indian Diaspora”, Sunil Bhatia“In Search of the ‘Children of the Wind’: A Journey to Chattisgarh”, Brij V. LalLiterary Representations of the Indian Diaspora“The Ecology of Disaster: A Reading of Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing”, Chitra Sankaran“Representations Juxtaposed: A Home Author and a Diasporic Author Depict Coorg”, Lisa Lau“Love and Longing for Mumbai: Vikram Chandra’s Fiction and Bollywood Cinema”, Mari A Ridda“Rifts and Riffs, Roots and Routes: Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge”, Judith Misrahi–Barak“Boundary-Marking in the Diaspora: An Analysis of Women Characters in Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters”, Uma Jayaraman“A Home of One’s Own: Gender, Family, and Nation in Indian-American Literature and Film”, Pranav JaniNotes on Contributors