symposium participants

  • The Problem
    A short statement of the issues involved

  • LABOUR AND LONGING
    Vinay Lal, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

  • dUSRA hINDUSTAN
    Vijay Prashad, International Studies Program, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

  • FIRM OPINIONS, INFIRM FACTS
    Devesh Kapur, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • LUNCH WITH A BIGOT
    Amitava Kumar, Professor of English, Penn State University, Pennsylvania

  • WHOSE IDENTITY IS IT ANYWAY?
    Shekhar Deshpande, Associate Professor and Director Communications Program, Arcadia University; Media Editor, 'Little India Magazine', Glenside, PA

  • PROFILE OF A DIASPORIC COMMUNITY
    Sonalde Desai,
    Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, MD and Rahul Kanakia, student, Stanford University, California

  • ARTS AND THE DIASPORA
    Vidya Dahejia, holds the Barbara Stoler Miller Chair of Indian Art at Columbia University, New York, and is Director of Columbia's Southern Asian Institute, NY
# 538
 June 2004


THE DIASPORA
a symposium on Indian-
Americans and the motherland




cover design by Akila Seshasayee

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