Tracing the Voices of the Indian Diaspora in Vietnamese Literature, Culture, and Society offers a fresh and necessary account of a little-studied community in modern Vietnam. Moving beyond familiar narratives of nation-building, the book brings together archival records, literature, newspapers, films, and interviews to recover the partial, fragmented, and often unheard voices of Indian descendants in Vietnam. It shows how Indian diasporic lives have been shaped by colonial mobility, Vietnamese nationalism, local belonging, religious practice, memory, silence, and everyday negotiation. Rather than treating the Indian community as marginal or merely symbolic, the book reveals its active presence in Vietnam’s cultural and social history. Through its interdisciplinary and comparative approach, this volume invites readers to rethink national history, diaspora, minority agency, and the ethics of listening to voices that have long remained at the edges of official narratives.

Chi P. Pham is an Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Riverside. Her work focuses on Vietnamese literature, comparative literature, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism, with particular attention to Indian diasporic communities in Vietnam.

Jose Monfred C. Sy is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong. He is also an assistant professor (on leave) in the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, University of the Philippines. His first monograph, Mga Mapa-kuwento ng Bakwit School (Sentro ng Wikang Filipino, 2024), examines education and resistance among Indigenous youth. He is also a co-editor of Suring Supling (Sentro ng Wikang Filipino, 2022), Mula Palengke Patungong Paaralan (IBON Foundation, 2024), Reimagining Development in Southeast Asia (Springer, 2025), and Decolonizing Comparative Literature (Springer, 2025). His work on social movements, environmental humanities, and children’s literature appear in Kritika Kultura, Humanities Diliman, AlterNative, Suvannabhumi, and Philippine Studies, among others.