The Indian Diaspora: Historical and Contemporary Context (2009), edited by Laxmi Narayan Kadekar, Ajaya Kumar Sahoo, and Gauri Bhattacharya has recently been published by Rawat Publications (Jaipur, India).
This book offers rich insights into the historical processes, dynamics of contemporary global dynamics, and influences on identity issues, generational differences, and others. The book addresses issues for retention of cultural identities of Indians in the older Diasporic countries. It also focuses on contemporary context of migration of Indians to the developed countries and their contribution to the economy of host societies as well as the country of origin. This publication is useful to sociologists as well as scholars working in anthropology, political science, geography, history, literary, cultural, ethnic, and migration studies. It includes articles by scholars such as Vinesh Hookoomsing, P. Pratap Koomar, Brij Maharaj, Mohan K. Gautam, Kumar Mahabir, and Karthiyaini Devarajoo.
Laxhmi Narayan Kadekar and Aya Kumar Sahoo both teach at the University of Hyderabad in India, in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Study of Indian Diaspora repectively. Gauri Battacharya teaches at the School for Social Work at Columbia University, New York. The Indian Diaspora: Historical and Contemporary Context is a publication in honor of Professor Chandershekhar Bhat, former chair of the Center for Study of Indian Diaspora at the University of Hyderabad. Bhat was the chair of GOPIO’s 20th anniversary convention diaspora session, “Energizing the Global Indian Diaspora,” held on Aug 22, 2009, in New York.
The book may be ordered from Chakra Pubishing House at 10 Swami Avenue, Don Miguel Road, San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago, or online. For more information, see http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no62497.htm
