The Hindu community organisations in Australia are not a top-down phenomenon but a result of bottom-up concentration of migrants, for the protection of cultural life and community support. Such experiences of community formation and its impediments can be studied by accessing the oral histories, which includes community leaders, Hindu representatives to multicultural forums, writers, community workers, that provides a glimpse of everyday community life. I understand these experiences as discourses and examine how Hindu victimhood shapes community cohesion, mobilisation, and boundary-making. In this paper, I examine how narratives of collective victimhood (as a minority ethno-religious group) shape the Hindu diasporic identity in Australia. The existing scholarship on the growth of Hindu diasporic mobilisation in Australia has shown the presence of right-wing Hindu nationalist tendencies. However, I extend these discussions to examine how narratives of victimhood shape the mobilisation of the Hindu-Indian diaspora in Australia. I do this by examining how the community mobilises around temples, religious organisations, and cultural events to feel a sense of belonging in Australia. Here, I specifically trace discourses of victimhood though (already conducted) semi-structured interviews with the Hindu-Indian diaspora in Australia.
