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As writing itself has been an indispensable part of the diasporic expression, what remains integral is its history encrypted in every experience. With time and over generations, diaspora writing has witnessed a tremendous diversity of... more
As writing itself has been an indispensable part of the diasporic expression, what remains integral is its history encrypted in every experience. With time and over generations, diaspora writing has witnessed a tremendous diversity of experience and their consequent expression. For instance, the long history of Sikh immigration to Canada doesn’t obfuscate substantial moments of identity negotiation, group solidarity, co-creation, and cooperation along with the invented mechanisms of social hierarchies and differences which exhibit the least discontinuity in the diaspora. The case for the present study is the story of a Punjabi Sikh Dalit family of Mahia Ram Mehmi, in Canada since 1906 sourced from South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) penned by Riya Lalitha. This paper comprehends the Sikh diaspora society in Canada keeping sight of the following objectives: (i) How religious practice is intertwined with the social system? (ii) How community advocacy may realize the tangible ...