Lotus Vingadassamy-Engel is a French Guadeloupean academic and expert on the

Indian diaspora Overseas Indians (IAST: ), officially Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) are Indians who live outside of the Republic of India. According to the Government of India, ''Non-Resident Indians'' are citizens of Indi ...

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

. She has written on the effects of

indentured labour Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years. The contract, called an "indenture", may be entered "voluntarily" for purported eventual compensation or debt repayment, ...

and the

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

customs practiced among their descendants. She gave a lecture in the India International Centre in New Delhi on that subject. Her contribution was later published in the Monsoon issue of the IIC quarterly Vol 19 N° 3 (1992).

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Diaspora: Genealogies of Semantics and Transcultural Comparison
– Numen, Vol. 47, No. 3, Religions in the Disenchanted World (2000), pp. 313–337 * – INDOLink French Indologists French Guianan writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Hindu-bio-stub