Book on "The Indian Diaspora - historical & contemporary context" published

In honor of Professor Chandershekhar Bhat


Oct 07, 2009

Edited by Laxhmi Narayan Kadekar (Department of Sociology) and Aya Kumar Sahoo (Center for Study of Indian Diaspora) of the University of Hyderabad in India, and Gauri Battacharya of the School for Social Work at Columbia University in New York, the “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 in India. Prof 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.

This book offers rich insights into the historical processes, dynamics of contemporary global dynamics, and influences on identity issues, generational differences, and issues arising in the Indian Diaspora. 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. "The Indian Diaspora: Historical and Contemporary Context" is 284 pages in length, a 2009 publication of Rawat Publications (Jaipur, India).


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