This presentation will help you learn about the Indian Diaspora, What is, the history of Indian Diaspora, its themes, its characteristics, and some writers who are diasporic

1. INDIAN DIASPORA

2. History of Indian Diaspora
● The Indian diaspora has grown manifold since the first batch of Indians were
taken to counties in the eastern pacific and the Caribbean islands under the
'Girmitiya' arrangement as indentured labourers.
● The Indian diaspora developed gradually during the 19th and 20th century
when emigration of indenture and contract laborers, traders, professionals,
students took place to the British, French, Dutch, Dane and Portuguese
colonies in Asia Africa, Caribbean and Far Eastern countries.

3. DIASPORA
● Diaspora comes from the word Dia and Sperien.
● Dia - “Away” and Sperien - “Scatter”.
● Movement of people away from their own country.
● According to Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary,
Diaspora means the movement of people from animation
or group away from their own country.
● Diaspora - Dislocation of Jews
● diaspora - cross - cultural displacement

4. Major themes
➢ Alienation
➢ Displacement
➢ Existential rootlessness
➢ Nostalgia
➢ Quest of identity
DIASPORA :
Internal Diaspora - within same country
External Diaspora - different country

5. Diasporic writing
● Works that are written by authors who live outside their native land.
● It is based on the idea of a homeland.
● Diaspora literature provides narrative of harsh journeys undertaken for various reasons.
● Diaspora provides an account of another “sense of place” away from homeland.
Characteristic of Diasporic literature

6. Some Diasporic Writers
● Jhumpa Lahiri
● Robin Cohen
● Meena Alexander
● Bharati Mukherjee
● Jasbir Jain
● Rajinder Kumar Dhawan
● Telugu Sireesha
● Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

7. Diasporic Writers
● Jhumpa Lahiri (1967) - Nilanjana
Sudeshna “Jhumpa” Lahiri is a Bengali
American author who was born in London,
the daughter of Indian immigrants from the
Indian state of West Bengal.
Major work - The Namesake (2003), The
Lowland (2013)

8. Diasporic Writers
● Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) - is
an Indian-born American author, poet
who was born in Calcutta, India.
Major work - The Mistress of Spices (1997),
Sister of My Heart (1999)

9. Diasporic Writers
● Robin Cohen (1944) - Robin Cohen
was born in Johannesburg, South
Africa. He left in 1964, returning to
the country for three years in the post-
Mandela period.
Major work - The new helots: migrants in
the international division of labour (1987),
Frontiers of identity (1994)

10. Diasporic Writers
● Bharati Mukherjee (1940 - 2017) - was an
Indian American-Canadian writer and
professor who was born in present-day
Kolkata, West Bengal, India during British
rule. She later travelled with her parents to
Europe after Independence, only returning
to Calcutta in the early 1950s.
Major work -The Tiger's Daughter (1971),
Jasmine (1989)

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