Examines the Indian diaspora in Mauritius, South Africa, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Trinidad, Australia, the US, Canada and the UK and the core issues of demography, economy, culture and future development.

Bhikhu Parekh is Centennial Professor in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, University of Hull.
Gurharpal Singh is Nadir Dinshaw Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at the University of Birmingham.
Steven Vertovec is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and will be returning to the University of Oxford as the Director of the Centre for Migration, Policy and Society in July 2003.

Gurharpal Singh Introduction1. Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing Choat Bharat, Mauritius: The Myth and the Reality2. Alleyn Diesel Hinduism in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa3. Ravindra K. Jain Culture and Economy: Tamils on the Plantation Frontier in Malaysia Revisited, 1998-19994. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Diaspora and Citizenship: Forgotten Routes of Identity in Lanka5. Prakash C. Jain Culture and Economy in an 'Incipient' Diaspora: Indians in the Persian Gulf Region6. N. Jayaram The Politics of 'Cultural Renaissance' among Indo-Trinidadians7. Carmen Voigy-Graf Indians at Home in the Antipodes: Migrating with PhDs, Bytes or Kava in their Bags8. Johanna Lessinger Indian Immigrants in the United States: The Emergence of a Trasnational Population9. Harjot Oberoi Imagining Indian Diasporas in Canada: An Epic without a Text?10. Roger Ballard The South Asian Presence in Britain and its Transnational Connections