Indian Diaspora and Cultural, Economic, and Technological Development of India: A Literary Perspective with Special Reference to Bharati Mukherjee, V. S. Naipaul, and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Indian diaspora has been contributed in shaping India’s cultural, economic, and technological development in the global arena. It does cultural development through representing India culturally through literature and intellectual discourse and economic development through remittances and investments. The issues of migration, globalization and transnational identity have been discussed in the diasporic literature and it reveals homeland’s development. This research paper deals with the relationship between Indian diaspora and its’ cultural, economic, and technological development with special reference to the works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Bharati Mukherjee, and V. S. Naipaul. This study claims that diasporic narratives function as cultural capital that reflects and reinforces India’s evolving global presence.