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 - From 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 Arts 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 and Binod Khadria -- 11. Unemployed Female Skilled Migrants from India in the Netherlands: The Entrepreneurial Self under Structural Dependency Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff and Dr. 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.

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