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The article briefly describes several websites including the World Digital Library, located at www.wdl.org, from the U.S. Library of Congress, the Oceania Digital Collection, located at library.ucsd.edu, from the University of California at San Diego, and the Digital Library on American Slavery, at library.uncg.edu/slavery, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The article explores the Tamil Diaspora in the Bay of Bengal region and aspects of the circulation and mobility of the Tamil people. The author compares the Tamil community across national boundaries with other diaspora communities in topics such as cultural purity, public spheres, and multiethnic popular culture. The author suggests that diasporic consciousness is developed from the interaction of multiple diasporas. Other topics include construction of Hindu temples in Tamil settlements, cultural connections, patterns of migrations and social development, and global labor markets that function through ethnic differentiation.