Lotus Vingadassamy-Engel is a French Guadeloupean academic and expert on the Indian diaspora in South America. She has written on the effects of indentured labour and the Hindu customs practiced among their descendants. She gave a lecture in the India International Centre in New Delhi on that subject. Her contribution was later published in the Monsoon issue of the IIC quarterly Vol 19 N° 3 (1992). References External links Indian Diaspora: Where Bharat Mata Lives in Their Souls – INDOLink Diaspora: Genealogies of Semantics and Transcultural Comparison – Numen, Vol. 47, No. 3, Religions in the Disenchanted World (2000), pp. 313–337 The Great Indian Diaspora – A Preface – INDOLink French Indologists French Guianan writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)