South Asians in Diaspora is a collection of essays concerning the history, politics, and anthropology of migration in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as in the numerous overseas locations, such as Fiji, Africa, the Caribbean and USA, where South Asians migrated in the colonial period and after.

List of Tables and Figures List of Maps Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Community and Identity Among South Asians in Diaspora; C.Bates 'They Cannot Represent Themselves': Threats to Difference and So-Called Community Politics in Fiji from 1936-47; J.D.Kelly Nested Identities: Ethnicity, Community and the Nature of Group Conflict in Mauritius; A.Nave The Development of Communalism among East African Asians; M.Twaddle Imagining? Ethnic Identity and Indians in South Africa; R.K.Thiara Migration, Migrant Communities and Otherness in Twentieth Century Sinhala Nationalism in Sri Lanka (up to Independence); N.Wickramasinghe Sojourners and Settlers: South Indians and Communal Identity in Malaysia; A.Kaur Communitarian Identities and the Private Sphere: A Gender Dialogue amongst Indo-Trinidadians (1845-1917); S.Chatterjee Hyderabadis in Pakistan: Changing Nations; K.Leonard Mohajirs in Pakistan: A Case of Nativisation of Migrants; M.Waseem Bridging the Gulf: Migration, Modernity and Identity among Muslims in Mumbai; T.B.Hansen Relationships between Muslims and Hindus in the United States: Mlecchas vs Kafirs?; A.T.Mohammad Index

SUMITA CHATTERJEE Ph.D THOMAS BLOM HANSEN Associate Professor, Department of International Development Studies, Roskilde University AMARJIT KAUR Professor of Economic History, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, Armidale JOHN D. KELLY Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago KAREN ISAKSEN LEONARD Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine AMINAH MOHAMMAD Lecturer, l'Institute National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris ARI NAVE Director of Pangea Productions RAVI K. THIARA Principal Researcher, Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology, University of Birmingham MICHAEL TWADDLE Reader in Commonwealth Studies, University of London MOHAMMAD WASEEM Professor of International Relations, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad NIRA WICKRAMASINGHE Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Political Science, University of Colombo