USES OF THE DIASPORA

Abstract

This essay examines the significance the diaspora has acquired in Indian popular culture. Through an examination of popular magazines and prime time programming, the essay illustrates the manner in which India and Indians have imaginatively accommodated the diaspora, encompassing it within the folds of a globalised Indian identity. The presence of the diaspora in popular culture helps produce new subjectivities, especially that of the new Indian woman. In contemporary popular culture, the diaspora expands the terrain of India beyond the contours of the nation‐state. The Indian female body, however, remains a site where a range of anxieties about globalisation is encoded. The Indian woman's body continues to be shaped by and regulated by ‘tradition’ and Indian values. Simultaneously, she becomes a conduit through which concerns of national stability and economic globalisation are performed.

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