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- ISBN 9781041303107
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Indian Transnationalism: Gender, Culture, and Identity delves into the challenges and creative transformations faced by Indians as they forge new lives abroad, offering a fresh and critical perspective on belonging in an interconnected world. The book brings together insights on ethnonational identity, gender roles, performing arts, and music, while examining the organizations that provide diasporic communities with political voice and social support. It explores how digital spaces—such as social media, streaming platforms, and online archives—shape cultural memory, particularly among younger generations. Additionally, it traces the journeys of cultural forms as they travel and adapt abroad, from the fusion music of the Indo-Caribbean diaspora to the simplified performances of rituals like Theyyam from Kerala.
What emerges is a nuanced portrait of diasporic life as a continuous negotiation between preservation and change, between belonging here and belonging there. The book reveals how gender influences who speaks for the community, how culture serves as both a resource for connection and a site of conflict, and how identity remains fluid and unsettled.
Written for students and scholars in migration studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, religious studies, and cultural studies, this volume offers a grounded and critical exploration of how globalization is lived, rather than merely theorized.
Ajaya K. Sahoo is Professor and Head of the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora at the University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. His research interests include diaspora, transnationalism, religion, and identity. He is the Editor of the journal South Asian Diaspora.
Anindita Shome is an Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India. Her research interests include diaspora, transnationalism, gender, and literary studies.
Shazia Khan is an Assistant Professor of English at Malla Reddy University, Hyderabad, and Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Her research sits at the intersections of migration, cultural identity, and sonic traditions. She specializes in Indo-Caribbean music, examining how sound shapes diasporic memory and belonging across transnational spaces.
Surabhi K. is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Her research interests include culture, religion, globalization, diaspora, and transnationalism, and she has published extensively on those areas.
