The Indian diaspora is a diverse community of migrants who live dispersed around the globe. This includes the situation of Indian emigration to Thailand, which has been ongoing for hundreds of years. Several scholars in Indian Diaspora Studies have previously contributed to an understanding of the different social groups of the heterogenous Indian diaspora in terms of ethnicities, religions, periods of migration, and social and political consciousness. However, Indian Diaspora Studies in Thailand undertaken by Thai scholars over the past decade have only focused on the Siamese Brahmin and the Thai-Indian Sikh and Muslim diaspora in Thailand, and have tended to view Hindu immigrants to Thailand as a homogeneous group. Their contribution is constrained by considering migrants only through the lens of ethnicity, and dualistically conceptualising ethnic boundaries between Indianness and Thainess as a result. This paper, in conversation with previous scholarship, applies the notion of heterogeneity to understand the complexity of the Indian Hindu diaspora in contemporary Thai societies. This article, based on case studies in the Chiang Mai province, asserts that the Thai-Indian Hindu diaspora consists of heterogeneous groups that utilise multi-ethnic-religious identities as cultural strategies to establish their self-identification. Therefore, the Indian Hindu diaspora in Thai society is associated with the (re)formation and recombination of traditional and modern diasporic types of consciousness, reflecting the complexity of the Indian Hindu diaspora in Thailand today.

印度侨民是一个多元化的移民社区，他们分散在全球各地。这包括印度移民泰国的情况，这种情况已经持续了数百年。印度侨民研究的几位学者此前曾在种族、宗教、移民时期以及社会和政治意识方面对异质印度侨民的不同社会群体做出了贡献。然而，过去十年泰国学者在泰国进行的印度侨民研究只关注泰国的暹罗婆罗门和泰印锡克教徒和穆斯林侨民，并倾向于将印度教移民泰国视为一个同质群体。他们的贡献受限于仅从种族的角度考虑移民，结果是对印度和泰国之间的种族界限进行二元概念化。本文在与以往的学术对话中，运用异质性的概念来理解当代泰国社会中印度印度教侨民的复杂性。本文基于清迈省的案例研究，断言泰印印度教侨民由异质群体组成，这些群体利用多民族宗教身份作为文化策略来建立他们的自我认同。因此，泰国社会的印度印度教侨民与传统和现代侨民意识类型的（重新）形成和重组有关，反映了当今泰国印度印度教侨民的复杂性。在与以前的学术对话中，应用异质性的概念来理解印度印度教侨民在当代泰国社会中的复杂性。本文基于清迈省的案例研究，断言泰印印度教侨民由异质群体组成，这些群体利用多民族宗教身份作为文化策略来建立他们的自我认同。因此，泰国社会的印度印度教侨民与传统和现代侨民意识类型的（重新）形成和重组有关，反映了当今泰国印度印度教侨民的复杂性。在与以前的学术对话中，应用异质性的概念来理解印度印度教侨民在当代泰国社会中的复杂性。本文基于清迈省的案例研究，断言泰印印度教侨民由异质群体组成，这些群体利用多民族宗教身份作为文化策略来建立他们的自我认同。因此，泰国社会的印度印度教侨民与传统和现代侨民意识类型的（重新）形成和重组有关，反映了当今泰国印度印度教侨民的复杂性。基于清迈省的案例研究，他断言泰印印度教侨民由异质群体组成，这些群体利用多民族宗教身份作为文化策略来建立他们的自我认同。因此，泰国社会的印度印度教侨民与传统和现代侨民意识类型的（重新）形成和重组有关，反映了当今泰国印度印度教侨民的复杂性。基于清迈省的案例研究，他断言泰印印度教侨民由异质群体组成，这些群体利用多民族宗教身份作为文化策略来建立他们的自我认同。因此，泰国社会的印度印度教侨民与传统和现代侨民意识类型的（重新）形成和重组有关，反映了当今泰国印度印度教侨民的复杂性。