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Rajend Mesthrie and Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi bring together an international range of scholars to explore the sociolinguistic outcomes of multilingualism and contact involving the Indian diaspora. The collection presents twelve rich case studies of Indian diaspora languages in South Asia, East Asia, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the USA. It examines different forms of displacement in response to a wide range of historical, social, technological and geopolitical developments: internal displacement and transcontinental migration, colonial and contemporary migrations, urban and rural migrations, migration of skilled and unskilled workers, and migration of major and minor Indian languages. By comparing the sociolinguistic consequences of migration in diverse contexts, Language in the Indian Diaspora examines the role of language practices in shaping local and global mobile contexts. In doing so, it develops our understanding of the processes of language use and language change in the emerging arena of migration studies.
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Introduction: Diversity and Diaspora, Rajend Mesthrie & Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi
1. Resistance and Reconciliation: Language and Identity Construction among the Internally Displaced Bhils in the Narmada Valley, Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi
2. Narratives of Displaced Kashmiri Pandits: Mobility, Diasporic Morbidity and the Chronotope of Victimhood, Rakesh M. Bhatt
3. Patterns of Language Use in the Diaspora Communities in Kolkata, Aditi Ghosh
4. Diasporic Adjustments and Indian languages in South Africa, Rajend Mesthrie
5. Language in the South Asian Diaspora in Britain, Devyani Sharma & Lavanya Sankaran
6. Symbolic Value as a Catalyst for Language Maintenance: Sanskrit in the US diaspora, Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
7. Indian Languages in Singapore, Ritu Jain & Rajesh Rai
8. East Indian Languages in the Caribbean Diaspora, Surendra Gambhir
9. A Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Retention of Ancestral Dialect Features in the Kokni spoken in Cape Town, Ruta Paradkar
10. The Dialect Roots of varieties of Gujarati in South Africa, Rajend Mesthrie & Vinu Chavda
11. South African Gujarati Literature: An Inventory and Critical Commentary, Mrunal Chavda & Rajend Mesthrie
12. Performing Language Alternation in Multilingual Mauritius: The Conversational Significance of Song Interludes in Everyday Interactions, Tejshree Auckle
