South Asia Migrations
About the Book Series
This series is about Global Indian Diaspora and explores transformative experiences of those who migrated or travelled overseas, and the memories of those who did not return and chose to stay in their respective host countries. These communities of South Asians abroad struggled to adapt to their new situations, standardizing the languages spoken, and preserving some cultural traditions and folk traditions, whilst discarding others (notably many of the distinctions of caste). In short, forging for themselves entirely new identities as ‘diasporic Indians’.
The Girmitiya Diaspora: Origins, Evolution and Bonding of Ethnic Communities
1st Edition
By Ruben Gowricharn
June 19, 2026
This book explores the ethnogenesis, their integration in host societies and their bonding in the Indian diaspora of Girmitiyas— a population of over 1.3 million British-Indian indentured labourers recruited in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to work in plantation colonies across Asia, ...
How Social Movements Imagine: Anthropology of Protest and the Newer Social Movements in India and South Africa
1st Edition
By Bobby Luthra Sinha
October 27, 2025
This book examines how micro contextual issues inspire collective social action forms against everyday situations of crises and crimes through an inter-disciplinary, ethnographic, and comparative research conducted among Bishnois and Indian South Africans. Exploring the role of the publics that ...