Anglophone diasporic crime fiction - written by authors of Indian descent who are based in the Global North - offers a double lens: firstly, it allows us to investigate how the uneven terrain of the nation-state, race, class, gender and caste in this contemporary global form is negotiated transnationally; and secondly, it pushes for a reassessment of the relationship of diasporic fiction with the shifting terrain of postcolonial Indian culture and society. I examine how this fiction challenges the paradigmatic frame of the nation and nationhood, and responds to questions of diasporic belonging and representation.