The Global Indian Diasporas in 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

In the recent past, Diaspora as an emerging field of research and teaching has been attracting the attention of policymakers and politicians from both homelands and host lands and academicians, researchers, and students from both Humanities and Social Sciences. There have been some scholarly attempts to study diaspora and transnational human mobility through international perspectives for example "Indian Diaspora in the US/Canada/Australia" etc. but there is no comprehensive scholarly study of various Indian Diaspora communities through regional, linguistic, and interdisciplinary perspectives. The current interdisciplinary edited book series aims to explore the global regional and linguistic Indian diasporas and their struggle, adjustments, contributions, and increasing socio-cultural, economic, and political importance, and opportunities and challenges in the 21st century for homelands and host lands. The series also aims to critically analyze the complex dynamics of loss, preservation, and hybridization of languages, cultures, identities, traditions, customs, food, memory, dress, music, folk traditions, etc. in the transnational spaces and the effect of international migration on communities, societies, and polities of both sending and receiving countries. It covers the issues of adjustment, memory, belonging, assimilation, acculturation, hybridity, dis-rootedness, nostalgia, etc. The series also tries to address emerging contemporary challenges to the migrant and diaspora minorities in transnational spaces due to growing nativism, right-wing nationalism, security concerns, stringent immigrant policies, racial/restrictive citizenship, bio-warfare, and COVID-19. Focusing on Indian linguistic and regional diasporas, the series presently plans to publish edited volumes to fulfill the growing scholarly demand across the globe, among readers, policymakers, researchers, and students in both departments of humanities and social sciences. We have planned to publish primarily on various Indian regional and linguistic Diasporas such as Kashmiri, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi, Malayali, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, and Odia Diaspora. The series will also welcome proposals on socio-cultural, political, and economic aspects of the Indian and global linguistic diasporas. It aims to re-orient diaspora scholarship to its multifarious nature and open up new perspectives to re-look at existing scholarship on the global diasporas by applying regional, linguistic, and interdisciplinary perspectives.