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b' Over the last decade, the South Asian Diaspora has been the focus of intense\ninterest. In an era of mass migration and easy communication, borders have\nbecome porous, and populations have multiple allegiances. South Asian diasporic\nidentities have shown an extraordinary capacity to thrive in the face of\nexclusion, partition, and expulsion, and to embrace pluralism, assimilation, and\ndual citizenship. Their experiences illuminate the topographies of identity and\nloyalty transforming the new global order. Following a multidisciplinary\napproach, this volume examines practices of political organization, civic\nparticipation, religious activity, cultural production, sexual relationships,\nfamily organization, and economic activity through which displaced communities\nreconstruct themselves. It, thus, allows us to '