Table of Contents:
  • Pre-histories of mobility and immobility : the Bengal Delta and the "Eastern Zone," 1857-1947
  • Dispositions and destinations in the Bengal Muslim diaspora, 1947-2007
  • Belonging, status, and religion : migrants on the "peripheries"
  • Making home : claiming and contesting diasporic space in Britain
  • "Always/already migrants" : brides, marriage, and migration
  • Building a tazia, becoming a paik : "Bihari" identity amid a hostile Bengali universe
  • Rituals of diaspora : the Shahid Minar and the struggle for diasporic space
  • Narrating diaspora : community histories and the politics of assimilation
  • Glossary
  • Appendix 1: Shamsul Huq's family tree.