Indian Transnationalism Online investigates the online organization of, and exchanges within the global Indian diaspora. Bringing together research from around the world and presenting studies drawn from the US, Europe and India, it engages with theoretical and methodological debates concerning the shaping and transformation of migrant culture in emerging sites of sociality, and explores issues such as religion, citizenship, nationalism, region and caste as they relate to Indian identity in global, transnational contexts.

Ajaya Kumar Sahoo is the Director of the Centre for Study of Indian Diaspora at the University of Hyderabad, India. He is the co-editor of Indian Diaspora and Transnationalism, Transnational Migrations: The Indian Diaspora, Sociology of Ageing: A Reader, Tracing an Indian Diaspora: Contexts, Memories, Representations, and Sociology of Diaspora: A Reader. Johannes G. de Kruijf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands and author of Guyana Junction: Globalisation, Localisation, and the Production of East Indianness.

Chapter 1 IntroductionMigrant Transnationalism and the Internet, Johannes G. de Kruijf; Part I Identity; Chapter 1a Performing Transnational Identity Online: Women Blogging from Domestic Spaces, Usha Raman, Sumana Kasturi; Chapter 2 The Trans-Indian: Perspectives on Real vs. Virtual Identity in the Age of the Internet, Ananda Mitra; Chapter 3 From the German Periphery '" On Ethnographic Explorations of Indian Transnationalism Online, Urmila Goel; Chapter 4 'ThirdSpace' as Transnational Space, Emily Skop; Chapter 5 Online Connections, Online Yatras: The Role of the Internet in the Creation and Maintenance of Links between Advaita Vedanta Gurus in India and their Devotees in the Diaspora, Heinz Scheifinger; Chapter 6 Cyberspace, the Globalisation of Hinduism, and Protocols of Citizenship in the Digital Age, Vinay Lal; Part II Power; Chapter 7 (Re-)connecting with the Indian Diaspora from the 'Homeland': Diaspora Conferences and the Construction of Online Linkages with Non-Resident Indians, Mirian Santos Ribeiro de Oliveira; Chapter 8 Is Guruji Online? Internet Advice Forums and Transnational Encounters in a Vaishnav Sectarian Community, Emilia Bachrach; Chapter 9 Globalisation and the Transnationalism of 'Dalit' Identity: Probings from Modern India, Ashish Saxena; Chapter 10 ConclusionThe Diasporic Web: Reflexive Dialogue and Agentive Awareness, Johannes G. de Kruijf;