ABSTRACT This article examines young Indian-Australians’ understandings of identity expressed through their preferences in an intimate partnership. Studies in comparable contexts have indicated that diasporic Indians may identify as generically ‘Indian’, and express a desire for partners who are the same. This is no less true for many of Australia’s Indians. Based on fieldwork with members of the diaspora in Sydney, this paper looks at the extent to which the social hierarchies of regional/linguistic identity, religion, caste and class are reproduced through this group’s marriage and partnership practices. I find that their varying relationships with these hierarchies are often unconsciously shaped, and find expression in a sense of ‘Indianness’ and adherence to ‘Indian’ values. This paper further disrupts essentialising conceptions of inherent, intransient diasporic identity by highlighting that the diasporic negotiation of self is deeply personal and prone to differentiation.

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但他不是德西：通过印度 - 澳大利亚侨民的伙伴关系偏好来表达“印度性”

摘要 本文考察了年轻的印度裔澳大利亚人对通过亲密伙伴关系的偏好所表达的身份的理解。在类似背景下的研究表明，散居海外的印度人可能普遍认为是“印度人”，并表达了对相同伴侣的渴望。对于许多澳大利亚的印度人来说，情况同样如此。基于对悉尼散居者成员的实地调查，本文着眼于区域/语言身份、宗教、种姓和阶级的社会等级制度通过该群体的婚姻和伙伴关系实践复制的程度。我发现他们与这些等级制度的不同关系往往是无意识地塑造的，并在“印度性”和对“印度”价值观的坚持中找到了表达。这篇论文进一步打破了固有的本质化概念，