Many Americans see India as the world's fastest-growing democracy or as a destination for outsourced jobs, reports the Indiana University news bureau. But another story, about perhaps the most successful migration in modern human history, often gets overlooked.
While India has a population of more than 1 billion, the sun never sets on its people, who also include between 20 million and 25 million in more than 100 other countries. It was their story that Steve Raymer, an associate professor of journalism at Indiana University and a former photographer for National Geographic magazine, set out to tell and photograph.
His expansive new 228-page book, Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora (Indiana University Press), is the first photographic record of a migration which began 200 years ago. It documents the struggle of Indian immigrants to survive and succeed wherever they have settled.
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