Indian Diaspora

“The Indian diaspora today constitutes an important, and in some respects unique, force in world culture. The origins of the modern Indian diaspora lie mainly in the subjugation of India by the British and its incorporation into the British empire. Indians were taken over as indentured labor to far-flung parts of the empire in the nineteenth-century, a circumstance to which the modern Indian populations of Fiji, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, Surinam, Malaysia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and other places attest in their own peculiar ways.”

• That is the introduction to this comprehensive site with a series of articles that deal with history and ethos of Indians settled in different parts the world.

 

• A review of writers of the Indian diaspora - an excerpt:

“I have been reading an extraordinary critique of Asian writers in English by a group of literary academics. The book, Writers of the Indian Diaspora attempts appraisals of the works of 58 writers, mainly from the Indian subcontinent, although the Indian diaspora takes in Asians from far-flung places like Fiji, the West Indies, Africa, Europe and America. There are several surprises. The only writer born in the 19th century and still living and writing, in Oxford, is Nirad Chaudhuri. Represented alongside are writers of undoubted literary sensibilities, but minor writers. The central theme is the assumption that as members of the Indian diaspora, we all share the same "diasporic consciousness".  The editor Emmannuel S. Nelson has been tracking these and other writers for a decade, in search of the "shared sensibility generated by a complex network of historical connections, spiritual affinities and cultural memories", all of which manifest as a thematic consistency in the works of these writers.”

• "The Indian success story is a triumph of quality over quantity. According to the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, an independent think tank, the U.S. is home to about 26.3 million immigrants,.....

   ......only 3% of Indian arrivals lack a high school education, and 75% of        working Indians are college graduates. (For immigrants from China, the        figure is 55%.) "   ....Read the full article featured in TIME magazine, by
    Anthony Spaeth from New Delhi.

• Indian Diaspora in Africa: There is also a seperate section on Goans in East Africa
• Wikipedia On Indian Diaspora.
• Some Statistics on Indians in the USA
• A detailed Report of  the High Level Committee appointed by the
  Govt of India –review of the status of Indians abroad in all its
  aspects and  its recommendations.