CONTENTS: Introduction-Nilufer E Bharucha, Foreword: Horizons of Imagination: Indian Diasporic Literature and Histories of Belonging-Ned Bertz, Inaugural Paper: Indian Naval Perspectives on the Indian Ocean, Memory Spaces and the Diaspora-Srikant Kesnur, THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPACES: 1. Transcending Heritage, History and Homeland: Rediscovedring India in Indian Diasporic Literature from South Africa-Anjali Singh, 2. The South African Indian Diaspora: Reflecting on the Multifaceted Experiences and Realities of Women Migrants-Kanya Padayachee, 3. Beating Stigma, Breaking Silence: Reflections on Vanessa Govender's Beaten but not Broken-Preeti Shirodkar, 4. South African Indian Playwrights of the Post-Apartheid Era: Drama as the Voice of tghe Rainbow Nation-Vidya Rao, 5. The Indian Ocean and a Diminutive Man as a Landscape of Memory-Sridhar Rajeswaran, 6. The Indian Ocean as Memoryscape: Multiple Crossings in Minal Hajratwala's Leaving India-Somdatta Mandal, MEMORIES OF EAST AFRICA: 7. Protesting Patriarchy: A Gendered Reading of Mukta's Shards of Memory in the Context of the East African Asian Diaspora-Mala Pandurang, 8. The Indian Ocean as Memory Space: The Indian Diaspora in East Africa-Nilufer E Bharucha, THE MEMORYSCAPE OF THE ISLANDS: 9. Mauritius: Multi-standed Diasporic Experience, Diasporic Sensibilities, Diasporic Connections-Sooryakanti Nirsimloo-Gayan, 10. The Coolie Odyssey-Vidya Vencatesan, 11. Indians in The Reunion Islands: A Disaporic Reading of Firmin Lacpatia's Boadour-Anusha Judith Reginald D'Souza, PAN-AFRICAN REPRESENTATIONS: 12. Building up the New Thalassology of the Indian Ocean through Edward A Alpers' Views-Sooshilla Gopaul, 13. Representation in Literature of the Indian Diaspora in Africa-Sharmila Jajodia, 14. The Indian Diaspora in Africa-Kshipra Vasudeo, Contributors.