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Strategic Lives
Based on extensive fieldwork in Pune, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, this article attempts to chart the migratory life of the Indian knowledge worker who having worked in the West returns to the country. The article focuses on the different aspects of this return back home. It tries to understand how migrants reconstruct their personal and professional life all over again. There is also an attempt to assess the impact made by the knowledge workers on their work environment in India.
This article is an outcome of fi eldwork carried out during 2013–14 in Pune, Hyderabad and Bengaluru as part of a collaborative research project of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University, Amsterdam and the Asian Development Research Institute, Patna, and was funded by WOTRO, The Netherlands. The author is grateful to his colleagues Kathinka Sinha Kerkhoff, Ellen Bal and Kate Kirk for their comments and responses. Research student Sarahrenee Janssen and Sara de Prie from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University, Amsterdam also provided signifi cant inputs and observations.
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