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Preliminary Material /P. Pratap Kumar -- 1 Introduction: Socio-Religious and Cultural World of the Indian Diaspora /P. Pratap Kumar -- 2 Reconstructing History through Oral Tradition: A Case Study of Indian Indentured Migrants /Archana Kumar and Ramnarayan Tiwari -- 3 Songs of Abolition: Anti-Indentured Campaign in Early Twentieth Century India /Ashutosh Kumar -- 4 'The World becomes Stranger, the Pattern more Complicated': Culture, Identity and the Indo-Fijian Experience /Brij V. Lal -- 5 Hyphenated Hindus: The Development of a Indo-Caribbean Identity /Prea Persaud -- 6 Constructing Hindu Worlds in Portugal: A Case Study from Lisbon /Inês Lourenço -- 7 Race, Representation and the Crisis of Democracy in South Africa /Nalini Moodley -- 8 Gujarati Muslim Diaspora and the Politics of Home in Apartheid South Africa /Thembisa Waetjen -- 9 Changing Caste Identities in the Indian Diaspora: A South African Perspective /Kalpana Hiralal -- 10 Interfaith Marriages and Marital Stability amongst the Indian Diaspora in the Durban Metropolitan Area, South Africa /Sultan Khan and Shanta B. Singh -- 11 The South African Indian Muslim Community and Its Role in Responding to International Disasters /S. Khan , A.K. Gabralla and A.F.M. Ebrahim -- 12 Changing Funerary Practices of the Tamil Hindus in Singapore /Siti Hazariah and Binte Abu Bakar -- 13 The Materiality of Diasporic Identity: Hindu Temples in Trinidad and Malaysia /Carolyn V. Prorok -- 14 Spaces of Religious, Social and Cultural Interaction of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims in the United Kingdom /Sharmina Mawani and Anjoom Mukudam -- 15 Representing Identity through Gurdwaras: Sikh Community in Nanaimo, British Columbia /P. Pratap Kumar -- 16 Indian Muslims and Mosque Construction in Australia /Goolam Vahed -- 17 In Retrospect: Some Theoretical Observations on the Socio-Cultural and Religious World of the Indian Diaspora /P. Pratap Kumar -- Index /P. Pratap Kumar.

Most overviews of Hindu belief and practice follow a history from the ancient Vedas to today. Such approaches privilege Brahmanical traditions and create a sense of Hinduism as a homogenous system and culture, and one which is largely unchanging and based solely on sacred texts. In reality, modern Hindu faith and culture present an extraordinary range of dynamic beliefs and practices. ''Contemporary Hinduism'' aims to capture the full breadth of the Hindu worldview as practised today, both in the sub-continent and the diaspora. Global and regional faith, ritualised and everyday practice, Brahm

In this paper, I wish to explore the life in the mid-19th to 20th century in the Durban-based Indian Casbah and its enduring legacy. In exploring the Casbah life in Durban, I wish to pay special attention to the narratives of the people who either were associated with it and had living memories of it, or remember the many stories passed on to them by their families.1 The central question that I explore in analysing these narratives is: does Casbah in the diaspora enable the diasporic community to reconnect with their Indian origins or does it orient them away from the romantic attachment to the places of their origin in India? In other words, is Casbah a symbol of a new settlement in which the diasporic community finds lasting meaning and legacy, or does it evoke memories and myths about their origins in India?