Minal Hajratwala, Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents Houghton Mifflin, 2009
It's not just a story about the Indian diaspora. It's about empire, about the movement of labor, about the use and abuse of race, about global historical forces that created expatriate communities in far-flung places. Minal Hajratwala explains how and why her extended family moved to and settled in nine different countries.