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South Asian diaspora

Here are entered works on the movement of South Asian people beyond the Indian subcontinent. For works on South Asians who have settled outside the Indian subcontinent, an additional heading is assigned to designate the place where they have settled, e.g., South Asians -- Great Britain.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Human geography
• South Asians

• South Asian diaspora in literature

• Diaspora, South Asian
• South Asians -- Diaspora

• Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2008), by Jaspal Kaur Singh (PDF files at University of Calgary)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Radical Theory/Critical Praxis: Making a Difference Beyond the Academy? (2004), ed. by Duncan Fuller and Rob Kitchin (PDF files at praxis-epress.org)
• Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Spatial Diffusion (originally published as Scientific Geography #10; c1988), by Richard L. Morrill, Gary L. Gaile, and Grant Ian Thrall (PDF at wvu.edu)
• Knowledge and Networks (Knowledge and Space v11; Cham: SpringerOpen, c2017), ed. by Johannes Glückler, Emmanuel Lazega, and Ingmar Hammer (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Mainsprings of World Politics (Headline Series #118; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1956), by Brooks Emeny (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Principles of Human Geography (New York: H. Holt and Co., c1926), by Paul Vidal de La Blache, ed. by Emmanuel de Martonne, trans. by Millicent Todd Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Influences of Geographic Environment on the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography (ca. 1911), by Ellen Churchill Semple (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mainsprings of World Politics (Headline series #42; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1943), by Brooks Emeny (page images at HathiTrust)

• Egypt at the Crossroads: Domestic Stability and Regional Role (1999), ed. by Phebe Marr (PDF page images at ndu.edu)

• A Regional Approach to Financial Crisis Prevention: Lessons from Europe and Initiatives in Asia, Latin America and Africa (2002), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen (PDF with commentary at fondad.org)

• Man in Europe, Here and There (1924), by Mark Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)

• España Regionalista y el Movimiento Catalán (in Spanish; Barcelona: F. Altés, 1908), by J. A. B. (José Alsina y Bover) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by Peter Redfield (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The World at Home: or, Pictures and Scenes From Far-Off Lands (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1869), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby (multiple formats at Google)

• El Factor Geografico en la Politica Sudamericana (in Spanish; Madrid: Estab. tip. de J. Rates, 1919), by Carlos Badía Malagrida
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America, by Ellsworth Huntington (Gutenberg text)

• The Rending of Virginia: A History (with new introduction; Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2000), by Granville Davisson Hall, contrib. by John E. Stealey (PDF at Tennessee)
• The Rending of Virginia: A History (Chicago: Press of Mayer and Miller, 1902), by Granville Davisson Hall
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Peter G. Boag (HTML at UC Press)

• ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies (2002-) (full serial archives)
• Géocarrefour (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922 (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2024), by Edith W. Clowes (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Human Geography of the South: A Study in Regional Resources and Human Adequacy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932), by Rupert B. Vance (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922 (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2024), by Edith W. Clowes (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2019), by Charles Piot, contrib. by Kodjo Nicolas Batema (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Jarrod Hayes (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (Gainesville et al.: University Press of Florida, c2020), by Quito Swan (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The African Diaspora in Canada: Negotiating Identity and Belonging (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2005), ed. by Wisdom Tettey and Korbla P. Puplampu, contrib. by Ali A. Abdi, Henry M. Codjoe, George J. Sefa Dei, John E. Jayfron, Martha K. Kumsa, Samuel A. Laryea, Philomina E. Okeke-Ihejirika, Denise L. Spitzer, and Adenike O. Yesufu (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• The Root of Roots, or How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Richard Price and Sally Price (PDF files with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• BlackPast.org (online encyclopedia, continuing to be updated as of 2025) (illustrated HTML at blackpast.org)

• Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century (Bielefield: Transcript Verlag, 2016), by Markus Nehl (PDF at oapen.org)
• Afropolitan Horizons: Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, c2022), by Ulf Hannerz
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at Berghahn Books
  • PDF files with commentary at De Gruyter Brill
• Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2008), by Jaspal Kaur Singh (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Diaspora and Trust: Cuba, Mexico, and the Rise of China (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by Adrian H. Hearn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast: Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley (originally published 2010; open access edition Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022), by Jeff Oliver (multiple formats with commentary at Open Arizona)

• The Memorial Union Terrace: A Landscape History (2008), by Susan K. Olsen (page images at Wisconsin)

• Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Pallavi Rastogi (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Wanderings of Peoples (second edition; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1912), by Alfred C. Haddon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Histoire Primitive du Genre Humain (in French; Tournai: H. Casterman; et al., 1864), by A. Fr. Gfrörer, trans. by Charles Sainte-Foi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Migrations of Early Culture: A Study of the Significance of the Geographical Distribution of the Practice of Mummification as Evidence of the Migrations of Peoples and the Spread of Certain Customs and Beliefs (Manchester: At the University Press; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915), by Grafton Elliot Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Local Identities: Landscape and Community in the Late Prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt Region (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies #9; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2003), by Fokke Albert Gerritsen (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Our Digital Rights to the City (London: Meatspace Press, 2017), ed. by Joe Shaw and Mark Graham (multiple formats wth commentary at meatspacepress.com)
• Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, by Hubert Howe Bancroft (Gutenberg text)
• A Treatise Concerning The Causes of the Magnificency and Greatness of Cities, by Giovanni Botero, trans. by Robert Peterson (text at McMaster)
• Della Ragione di Stato: Libri Dieci, con Tre Libri Delle Cause Della Grandezza delle Città (in Italian; Venice: Appreso i Gioliti, 1598), by Giovanni Botero (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Anti-Atlas: Critical Area Studies From the East of the West (London: UCL Press, c2025), ed. by Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell, and Michał Murawski (PDF with commentary at UCL)

• A Problem of Great Importance: Population, Race, and Power in the British Empire, 1918-1973 (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2013), by Karl Ittmann (page images and PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)

• 21st Century Cooperation: Regional Public Goods, Global Governance, and Sustainable Development (London and New York: Routledge, c2017), ed. by Antoni Estevadeordal and Louis Wolf Goodman (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.