Patterns of international migration have produced complex transnational networks that directly link towns and villages in India to people and places abroad. Although the Government of India has forged a strong relationship with Overseas Indians, the ties that migrants and diasporic groups maintain with their home country is not primarily with the Indian nation-state but with their native villages or towns.

This book explores varying patterns of mobility, transnational ties, and flows of migrant resources to India. The transnational connection, and the diverse ways in which migrant...