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.