AT HOME IN DIASPORA:SOUTH ASIAN SCHOLARS AND THE WEST

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This book, comprising a blend of autobiography and intellectual history by some of South Asia's foremost contemporary historians and sociologists, shows that the postcolonial scholar's presence in the West is a phenomenon worthy of analysis. In particular, the questions asked here relate to the impact of the intellectual diaspora on research, both in the West and in South Asia. While considering nomadic theories in an age of globalization, this book documents the complexities of the relationship between culture, knowledge, and the individual. The book, At Home In Diaspora highlights the importance of singular as well as collective migration today, alongside the circulation of lived experience and knowledge across vast geographical spaces. In showing how the intervention of scholars of South Asian descent in Western academic institutions has reconstituted the debate on post-colonialism, imperialism, globalization, capitalism, and national traditions, this book is quite unusual in being simultaneously entertaining, informative, and thought-provoking about the whole history of South Asia's scholarly transactions with the West.