"Upadhyay provides a lexicon to probe the nebulous phenomenon of Indian cultural ascendancy in North America, demystifying the caste-based politics that undergirds it."--Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

"Indians on Indian Lands is a deeply generative contribution to Asian Canadian studies, critical caste studies, and the emerging conversation on South Asian-Indigenous relationality. What sets it apart is not just its methodological range from ethnography to literary analysis, but its insistence on confronting dominant caste complicity and privilege. Upadhyay refuses easy solidarities or celebra-tory accounts of diaspora. Instead, they offer a politically urgent framework for thinking about caste as a mobile structure that aligns with settler power across borders."--Journal of Asian American Studies

"Nishant Upadhyay has gone to great lengths to document the history of First Nations and their cross-cultural connections with settler immigrants, particularly those coming from India. Their book, Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste and Indigeneity, provides a nuanced and well-researched analysis of both the tensions and solidarities between the two groups of people and tries to situate the whole issue in the broader context of colonialism."--Pancouver

"Nishant Upadhyay's Indians on Indian Lands is a powerful contribution and challenge to specific scholarly traditions and their scholars. Through structural, contextual, and relational analyses of race, caste, and Indigeneity, Upadhyay makes three significant contributions to scholarship on transnationalism, decoloniality, colonialism, and Sikhs. In particular, Upadhyay shifts our lens toward a more focused critique of casteism and how scholars are implicated and complicit in such casteism through knowledge production."--Prabhdeep Singh Kheal, Sikh Research Journal

"Nishant Upadhyay’s Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity is a crucial intervention in the study of racialization, power, and diasporic settler communities, theorizing caste as both locally specific and transnationally mobile. Through interviews and literary analyses, Upadhyay shows how caste migrates with South Asians, shaping how they understand themselves and the lands they come to occupy as settler workers."--Sailaja Krishnamurti, Sikh Research Journal

"Upadhyay’s key intervention lies in demonstrating how brahminical supremacy knows no territorial limits. In doing so, they pry open the convenient silos that have historically separated scholarship on caste apartheid, both in South Asia and in the South Asian diaspora, from scholarship on settler colonialism. The book reveals the intersecting and layered ways in which oppressive structures cohere and co-produce both settler colonialism alongside the enduring systems of racial/caste apartheid, not just among white populations but also among racialized Indian hindus and Sikhs in North America."--Mona Bhan, Sikh Research Journal