Abstract
ABSTRACT I offer two cautionary notes to reorient the grammar of ‘diaspora' away from its sociological descriptive function of classifying groups that are oppressed, and towards a focus on emergent subjectivity. The first caution is against ‘auto-perversity’, whereby members of the Sikh diaspora discipline other members of the diaspora in the service of coloniality. The second type of colonial perversion occurs when members of the Sikh diaspora are deployed to advance settler sovereignty and indigenous dispossession. By way of a conclusion, I contend that Sikhs (and indeed all people) need to disrupt these perversions to decolonize diasporas and diasporicity.
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