Women in the Indian Diaspora

1. Women in Indian Diaspora: Redefining Self Between Dislocation and Relocation
Amba Pande

Part I. The Context of Theory and Identity

2. Centring Gendered Narratives of the Indian Diaspora
Sandhya Rao Mehta

3. The Rhetoric of Deliberation and the Space of the Hyphen: Identity Politics of the Indian Women Diaspora in the Fictions of Jhumpa Lahiri
Nabanita Chakraborty

4. Freedom or Subjugation: Interpreting the Subjectivity of Women in Indian Diaspora Communities
Sheetal Sharma

Part II. Revisiting Historical Narratives

5. Indian Indentured Women in the Caribbeans and the Role Model of Ramayana’s Sita: An Unequal Metaphor
Archana Tewari

6. ‘The Men Who Controlled Indian Women’—Indentureship, Patriarchy and Women’s ‘Liberation’ in Trinidad
Radica Mahase

7. Tamil Women of the Diaspora: Indentured to Independence
Bernard D’Sami

Part III. The Contemporary Challenges

8. Fitting in: The Joys and Challenges of Being an Indian Woman in America
Mahua Bhattacharya

9. Three Tamil Diasporic Women’s One Mission: Discover New Identities

Gopalan Ravindran

10. Gender Differentials of Indian Knowledge and Service Workers in the US Labour Market: A Comparative Analysis in the Context of ‘Age, Wage, and Vintage’ Premia
Narender Thakur, Binod Khadria

11. Unemployed Female Skilled Migrants from India in the Netherlands: The Entrepreneurial Self Under Structural Dependency
Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, Kate Kirk

Part IV. Diasporas Across the World

12. Curry and Race: Gender, Diaspora and Food in South Africa
Movindri Reddy

13. Diversities, Continuities and Discontinuities of Tradition in the Contemporary Sikh Diaspora: Gender and Social Dimensions
Shinder S. Thandi

14. Anglo-Indian Women: A Narrative of Matriarchy in a Global Diaspora
Ann Lobo

15. Lived Experiences of Sikh Women in Canada: Past and Present
Amrit Kaur Basra

Keywords: Social Sciences, Diaspora, Culture and Gender, Postcolonial/World Literature