The Indian Diaspora:	scientist” (p 7). The first five chapters of the book examine inter-diaspora con-
Musings of a Social Anthropologist	nections (via horizontal comparisons), and the last four chapters, the intra
	diaspora Indian anchorage (via vertical
	comparisons).
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avindra K Jain, the current elected chair of the Indian Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists, is perhaps the only social anthropologist with long-standing and wide-ranging scholarly interest in the Indian diaspora. He did research on the communities of Indian origin in Malaysia and Trinidad much before the rubric “the Indian diaspora” came into vogue. Jain, in my opinion, is the scholar who can provide a comprehensive and authoritative perspective on the Indian diaspora.