Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethnicity, locality and circulation in two diasporic merchant networks from South Asia / Claude Markovits -- The social world of Gujarati merchants and their Indian Ocean networks in the seventeenth century / Murari Kumar Jha -- Subaltern networks in a colonial diaspora : a study of Indian migrants and Mauritius / Marina Carter -- An entrepreneurial diaspora? Transnational space and India's international economic expansion / Peter Reeves -- Indians in Southeast Asia : migrant labour, knowledge workers and the new India / Amarjit Kaur -- Indo-Fijians : roots and routes / Brij V. Lal -- From Bharat to Sri Ram Desh : the emigration of Indian indentured labourers to Suriname / Chan E.S. Choenni -- Sociological reflections on the diasporic Bangladeshis in Singapore and USA / Habibul Haque Khondker -- The attrition and survival of minor South Asian languages in Singapore / Rajesh Rai -- Forging kinship with food : the experience of South Indians in Malaysia / Theresa W. Devasahayam -- Bhai Maharaj Singh and the making of a "model minority" : Sikhs in Singapore / Tan Li Jen -- "The familiar temporariness" : Naipaul, diaspora and the literary imagination : a personal narrative / Vijay Mishra.