Indians Abroad / edited by Sarva Daman Singh and Mahavir Singh

Since time immemorial Indians have been going to different parts of the world as traders, teachers, preachers, adventurers and soldiers of fortune. They became the harbingers of new civilizations that borrowed from India literary, artistic, religious and iconographic ideas, as well as political philosophies that produced marvellous syntheses of what was their own and whatever came in from India.

When India succumbed to the imperial domination of Great Britain, she was dragged against her will into the world around her by the far-flung interests of the British Empire. Indian indentured labour was the human subsidy paid for the pecuniary profitability of Britain's colonies in Africa, Asia, the South Pacific and the Caribbean. Many Indians went to Britain. and her colonies of their own free will to work and to study; and also to countries outside the empire, and settled there.

Indians Abroad is a collection of papers by various authors, who examine the trials and achievements of Indians in Central Asia, the U.S., U.K., France, Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, undefeated by discrimination and undaunted by impediments. Their success traverses many spheres of human endeavour, ranging from the economic to the scientific and the literary; and is doubtless worthy of celebration as the triumph of invincible will over adversity, injustice and inequity.