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Diaspora Studies has emerged as a major academic discipline in the past few decades as large groups of people, including Hindus, have immigrated to countries outside India.. Hindus are now settled in more than 150 countries around the globe, not the least in the U.S. How to Hindus define themselves, negotiate identities, raise their children, and preserve religious and cultural traditions in a foreign culture, especially one that has long looked at India and Hinduism as the very embodiment of the strange and the exotic? While Hindu immigrants have much in common with other immigrant groups. their situation is in some ways distinctive.
The phenomenon of the Hindu diaspora ( literally, "dispersion") raises many interesting questions for study.
Web Resources
South Asia Diaspora Bibliography (UC Berkeley)
Books and Articles
Eck, Diana. 2001. A New Religious America. San Francisco: Harper Collins.
Dempsey, Corinne. 2006. The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York. New York: Oxford University Press.
Israel, Milton, ed. 1987. The South Asian Diaspora in Canada: Six Essays. Toronto: The Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
Jacobsen, Knut A. and Pratap Kumar, eds. 2004. South Asians in the Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions. Brill.
Kanungo, Rabindra N., ed. 1984. South Asians in the Canadian Mosaic. Montreal: Kala Bharati.
Knott, Kim. 1986. Hinduism in Leeds. University of Leeds.
Kumar, Pratap. 2000. Hindus in South Africa, University of Durban-Westville.
Kurien, Prema. 2007. A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Leonard, Karen Isaksen. 1997. The South Asian Americans. Westport, Conn: Greenwood.
Narayanan, Vasudha. 1992. "Creating the South Indian 'Hindu' Experience in the United States." In A Sacred Thread: Modern Transmission of Hindu Traditions, ed. Raymond Williams, 147-176. Chambersburg, PA: Anima Publications.
Pearson, Anne McKenzie. 1999. “Mothers and Daughters: The Transmission of Religious Practice and the Formation of Hindu Identity Among Hindu Women in Ontario.” In Hindu Diaspora: Global Perspectives, edited by T.S. Rukmani, 427-442. Montreal: Concordia University Press.
Rayaprol, Aparna. 1997. Negotiating Identities: Women in the Indian Diaspora. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Rukmani, T. S., ed. 1999. Hindu Diaspora: Global Perspectives. Montreal: Concordia University Press; also Delhi: Mushiram Manoharlal, 2001.
Sheth, Pravin. 2001. Indians in America: One Stream, Two Waves, Three Generations. New Delhi: Rawat.
Vertovec, Steven. 2001. The Hindu Diaspora: Comparative Patterns. London: Routledge.
Waghorne, Joanne Punzo. 1999. "The Hindu Gods in a Split-Level World." In Gods of the City, ed. Robert Orsi, 103-130. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Waghorne, Joanne Punzo. 2004. Diaspora of the Gods: Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle-Class World. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wood, Marjorie. 1980. "Hinduism in Vancouver: Adjustments in the Home, the Temple, and the Community." In Visible Minorities and Multiculturalism: Asians in Canada, ed Victor Ujimoto, 277-288. Toronto: Butterworths.
Williams, Raymond. 1988. Religions of Immigrants from India and Pakistan: New Threads in the American Tapestry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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