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Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. They wore his face on their chests, waved it on posters, chanted his name and quoted his slogans, 19,000 fans drawn to a single star. His image stared down from the big screen at Madison Square Garden and emerged on canvas in a live speed painting on stage. And when the man himself emerged, the capacity crowd in New York's most storied arena roared as one, as if all the New York Knicks, all the New York Rangers, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen had suddenly materialized. "Modi! Modi! Modi!" the audience chanted, drowning out the announcer's attempt to introduce the man who needed no introduction: Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, whom 19,000 people had travelled from around the country and Canada to see 'speak' on his first trip to the United States since being elected in May. The American tour has showcased Modi as a diplomat and world leader, but at Madison Square Garden in New York, he was all celebrity, embracing the adulation of a diaspora that maintains strong ties to the motherland. His hero's welcome must have seemed slightly stunning to the three dozen or so US elected officials who turned up to greet him, including several senators, 30- odd representatives and one governor, each of whom strode on stage to no more than polite applause.

'.......he was all celebrity, embracing the adulation of a diaspora.' What do you understand by the word 'diaspora' in the context of passage?

   

A) The people staying in USA.

B) Dispersion or spreading of people originally belonging to one nation or having a common culture.

C) The people of Indian origin staying in USA.

D) The dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine.

E) None of these