Contents: Preface. 1. Describing Diaspora : discussing literature/M.S. Pande. 2. Diaspora and globalisation: Coolie children in Malaysia/P. Dalai. 3. Gita Mehta's a river Sutra: a life line/Shalini Dube. 4. Diasporic struggle and detoured settlement: a scrutiny of Coetzee's slow man/Dhiriti Ray and P. Dalai. 5. Rohinton Mistry: a Diaspora writer/Umesh Gulabrao Patil. 6. Interpretation of partition in the Shadow lines: a study in Diaspora context/Indira Javed and Neeta Puranik. 7. Voicing voiceless: a study of Meera Alexander's fault lines: a memoir/Vineeta S. Choudhary and Renu Mishra. 8. No new land : a story of quest for identity/Hareshwar Roy. 9. Bharti Mukherjee's treatment of identity crisis/Hemant Thankappan and Raghvendra Naidu. 10. Women's wounded existence in Anita Desai's novel/Shiv Govind Puri. 11. Diasporic configurations and experiences in the poetry of A.K. Ramanujan/P.K. Jain. 12. The textuality of Orpheus myth: a reading of Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet/N.S. Kamil. 13. Blank pages of history and belonging: reflections on emerging diasporic identity in Meera Syal's Anita and Me/Arti Nirmal. 14. Major themes in Indian Diaspora with special reference to Raja Rao/R.K. Sharma.
"Insufficient effort has been made for quite a long time to study Indian diasporic community abroad. There has not been enough work on then, either by Indians in both hostland and homeland or by outsiders. Irrespective of their marginal and deprived positions, they embody a stronger sense of affinity and adherence towards India. To them, India is and will always be in their hearts what they regard as mother India and their true and only home. It is also surprising to note how amidst all hurdles and hostile conditions, they endeavor and succeed in all fields-ranging from literature to art, culture, politics and other professions.
To sum extent, the present book clarify many quarries related to 'the world of Diaspora'. The present volume includes 14 different thought provoking essays depicting different stories and works." (jacket)
