Origin of Indian Diaspora linkages

  • The history of the Indian Diaspora is closely linked to India’s trade links and can be traced back nearly four millennia, when the Indus Valley Civilization traded with ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Small merchant communities in these regions were the precursors of the modern Indian Diaspora.
  • From 500 to 1600AD, trade, again, was the foundation on which sizeable Indian Diasporas developed across the Indian Ocean rim – from Zanzibar and Egypt in the West, to Yemen and Oman in the Arabian Peninsula to the Arakkan and Malacca in the Far East.
  • The modern Diaspora is 26 million strong with roots enmeshed with ....
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