ABSTRACT
This chapter considers second and third generation British-born Indians heading to India. The Indian government has reconnected with the diaspora and aimed to strengthen existing bonds to facilitate the diaspora's contribution to the development of modern India and encourage investment in the home country. The research that does exist has been conducted with US-born Indians and has explored motivations for return and ethnic identities in the workplace. In India, multi-generational households are less common than they once were, yet the family still functions as a dominant influence in the life of its individual members. In relation to the domains of day-to-day social conduct, manners and professional conduct, these returnees are more British than Indian. The Indian group is one of the three ethnic groups in Britain which provide the highest levels of care for a family member with the second and third being White British and White Irish.
