Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Mobile South Asians in the early modern world 1. The world of the Indian Ocean 2. The market for military labour in early modern north India 3. Scribal migrations in early modern India 4. Mobile artisans 5. Hawala and Hundi: vehicles for the long-distance transmission of value Part 2: Diaspora and empire 6. South Asian business in Empire and beyond 7. Indenture: Experiment and Experience 8. Wrecking homes, making families: Women’s recruitment and indentured labour migration from India 9. The age of the lascar. South Asian seafarers in the times of imperial steam shipping 10. South Asians in Britain up to the mid-nineteenth century 11. Warriors, workers, traders, and peasants: The Nepali/Gorkhali diaspora since the nineteenth century Part 3: Diaspora and nation 12. Seeking empire, finding nation: Gandhi and Indianness in South Africa 13. South Asian migration to the United States: Diasporic and national formation Part 4: Diaspora, nation states and the neighbourhood 14. From imperial Subjects to national citizens: South Asians and the international migration regime since 1947 15. The production of illegality in migration and diaspora: State policies and human trafficking from Pakistan 16. Out of India: Deobandi Islam, radicalism and the globalization of ‘South Asian Islam’ 17. Nationalising a diaspora: The Tibetan government-in-exile in India 18. Sri Lanka’s diasporas Part 5: Diaspora, globalisation and culture 19. Brain Drain, exchange and gain: ‘Hi-skill’ migrants and the developed economies 20. Transnationalism and the tranformation of ‘home’ by ‘abroad’ in Sylhet, Bagladesh 21. Indians abroad: Mixing it up 22. Bengalis in Britain: Migration, state controls and settlement 23. The Pakistani Diaspora: US and UK 24. Hinduism in the diaspora 25. Ritual, religion and aesthetics in the Pakistani and South Asian Diaspora 26. Europe’s Muslim passions 27. Diasporic cities in Britian: Bradford, Manchester, Leicester, London 28. Dis/Locating diaspora: South Asian youth cultures in Britain 29. Dress and the South Asian diaspora 30. Marriages of convenience and capitulation: South Asian marriage, family and intimacy in the Diaspora 31. Literatures of the South Asian Diaspora 32. Indian food in the USA: Adapting to culinary eclecticism 33. Bollywood’s Empire: Indian Cinema and Diaspora

About the Author

Joya Chatterji was educated at the Universities of Delhi and at Trinity College, Cambridge. She taught International History at the LSE and she is currently a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University, and a Lecturer in History at Cambridge. In her research, she is concerned with communalism, borders, refugees, migration and identity-formation. Presently she is leading a large AHRC project on the Bengali diaspora. David Washbrook is a Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He was previously Director of the Indian Studies Centre and Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He specializes in the modern and contemporary history of India, especially southern India. He has also taught at Harvard and Warwick Universities and at the University of Pennsylvania and has contributed to numerous books and periodicals on South Asia, especially on Indian politics and development.