List of illustrationsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: concepts and questionsPART I Mobile South Asians in the early modern world1 The world of the Indian Ocean2 The market for mobile labour in early modern North India3 Scribal migrations in early modern India4 Mobile artisans5 Hawala and hundi: vehicles for the long-distance transmission of valuePART II Diaspora and empire6 South Asian business in the Empire and beyond c. 1800-19507 Indian indenture: experiment and experience8 Wrecking homes, making families: women's recruitment and indentured labour migration from India9 The age of the `lascar': South Asian seafarers in the times of imperial steam shipping10 South Asians in Britain up to the mid-nineteenth century11 Warriors, workers, traders and peasants: the Nepali/Gorkhali diaspora since the nineteenth centuryPART III Diaspora and nation12 Seeking empire, finding nation: Gandhi and Indianness in South Africa13 South Asian migration to the United States: Diasporic and national formationsPART IV Diaspora, nation states and the neighbourhood14 From imperial subjects to national citizens: South Asians and the international migration regime since 194715 The production of illegality in migration and diaspora: state policies and human smuggling from Pakistan16 Out of India: Deobandi Islam, radicalism and the globalisation of `South Asian Islam'17 Nationalising a diaspora: the Tibetan government-in-exile in India18 Sri Lanka's diasporasPART V Diaspora, globalisation and culture19 Brain drain, exchange and gain: `hi-skill' migrants and the developed economies20 Transnationalism and the transformation of `home' by `abroad' in Sylhet, Bangladesh21 Indians abroad: mixing it up22 Bengalis in Britain: migration, state controls and settlement23 The Pakistani diaspora: USA and UK24 Hinduism in the diaspora25 Ritual, religion and aesthetics in the Pakistani and South Asian diaspora26 Europe's Muslim passions27 Diasporic cities in Britian: Bradford, Manchester, Leicester, London28 Dis/locating diaspora: South Asian youth cultures in Britain29 Dress and the South Asian diaspora30 Marriages of convenience and capitulation: South Asian marriage, family and intimacy in the diaspora31 Literature of the South Asian diaspora32 Indian food in the USA: adapting to culinary eclecticism33 Bollywood's empire: Indian cinema and the diasporaIndex