Diaspora of Kamala Markandaya's Possessions

Abstract

Broadly speaking the term Diaspora means the dispersion of any people from their ethnic homelands to other parts of the world and the ensuing developments in their dispersed cultures.

           The term Diaspora which in ancient Greek means to scatter or to disperse is used to refer to any ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional or original homeland and as a consequence, being forced to disperse throughout other parts of the world.the ancient Greeks originally used the term to refer to those conquered people who migrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization in order to assimilate that territory in to the Greek empire.