Dr Vinay Lal’s Concepts of the Indian Diaspora

Dr. Vinay Lal, an Indian born US settled Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) has published articles on the aspects of diaspora and about the migrants of India. He has created an official website where he portrays the cultures, religions, landscape and so on about India, dedicating a special …

The Three Waves of The Indian Diaspora

The Indian Diaspora: Historical and Contemporary Context (2009) edited by Laxmi Narayan Kadekar, Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Gauri Bhattachariya have made a statistical research on the percentage, reasons, and different aspects of diaspora in India. The book focuses on the international migration and has divided the book into parts containing various essays namely: old Indian …

Diaspora

The word ‘diaspora’ explained by Fernando Galvan, a well known researcher and a Professor at University of Alcala, Spain in his essay “Metaphors of Diaspora: English Literature at the Turn of the Century” originates from the Greek verb “speirein” (to sow, to scatter) and the preposition “dia” (through), which in agricultural metaphor is associated to …