Abstract
In spite of the recent flowering of studies on the South Asian diaspora,1 we are nevertheless left with many gaps in our knowledge and many unanswered questions. The bulk of existing work is still focused on the migration of agricultural labour and the ‘Little Indias’ it spawned in various corners of the world. The recent migrations of educated professionals to the countries of the ‘First World’, particularly the USA, are also attracting increasing attention. The whole field of migration and diaspora studies remains, however, dominated by a host country perspective which tends to obliterate the general picture from the point of view of South Asian history.
From Modern Asian Studies 33:4 (1999), pp. 883–912.
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Markovits, C. (2008). Indian Merchant Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. In: Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594869_9
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