| Abstract
| - The Telangana Diaspora and Off-Site Regionalism. Among diasporic communities, nationalism is a widespread but under-studied phenomenon. The present article examines southern India’s pro-Telangana movement as a window on the regional scale of off-site mobilization. In doing so, it allows us to move beyond the psychological explanations that are too often supplied for the phenomenon. Indeed, in the past ten years, this movement - which in fact dates from the 1950s and calls for Telangana autonomy within the Indian Federation - has undergone a revival, in large measure thanks to expatriate Telanganans. Through very active organizations in the United States, England and the Gulf States, they finance activities in India, supply electoral material, travel to promote candidates and, in some cases, themselves run for office. Examining this transnational political involvement helps delineate the political economy that links activists of the diaspora to their country of origin.
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