South Asians In East Africa

Author : Robert G Gregory
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Asians In East Africa written by Robert G Gregory and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Asians who sought a new home in colonial East Africa underwent a remarkable transformation. However, despite the Asians' range of activity, the value of their presence has not been widely recognized. Many political leaders, both European and African, have vilified the Asians as exploiters. Whether free immigrants or indentured servants, most Asians arrived as impoverished petty farmers. In Africa, sensing the opportunity to serve as middlemen in a trade with European settlers and Africans, nearly all the Asians turned from farming to business. They became importers and exporters, retailers and wholesalers, skilled artisans, and building contractors. Asians also filled the middle level of the civil service; some became doctors, lawyers, teachers, and other professionals. In time, many invested their savings in manufacturing and estate agriculture. Stressing industry, thrift, and education, the community prospered. Based on numerous archival sources and extensive interviews, this book is the first comprehensive study of Asian social and economic experience in the region. Dr. Gregory provides evidence of a substantial Asian economic and social contribution and indicates that the history of East Africa needs considerable revision to adequately acknowledge the Asians' true role.

Author : Sana Aiyar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674425928
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indians in Kenya written by Sana Aiyar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working as merchants, skilled tradesmen, clerks, lawyers, and journalists, Indians formed the economic and administrative middle class in colonial Kenya. In general, they were wealthier than Africans, but were denied the political and economic privileges that Europeans enjoyed. Moreover, despite their relative prosperity, Indians were precariously positioned in Kenya. Africans usually viewed them as outsiders, and Europeans largely considered them subservient. Indians demanded recognition on their own terms. Indians in Kenya chronicles the competing, often contradictory, strategies by which the South Asian diaspora sought a political voice in Kenya from the beginning of colonial rule in the late 1890s to independence in the 1960s. Indians’ intellectual, economic, and political connections with South Asia shaped their understanding of their lives in Kenya. Sana Aiyar investigates how the many strands of Indians’ diasporic identity influenced Kenya’s political leadership, from claiming partnership with Europeans in their mission to colonize and “civilize” East Africa to successful collaborations with Africans to battle for racial equality, including during the Mau Mau Rebellion. She also explores how the hierarchical structures of colonial governance, the material inequalities between Indians and Africans, and the racialized political discourses that flourished in both colonial and postcolonial Kenya limited the success of alliances across racial and class lines. Aiyar demonstrates that only by examining the ties that bound Indians to worlds on both sides of the Indian Ocean can we understand how Kenya came to terms with its South Asian minority.

Author : Pascale Herzig
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825800529
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Asians in Kenya written by Pascale Herzig and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century a substantial South Asian minority has been living in Kenya. Within a few decades a majority of the Kenyan Asians has managed to transform their living conditions from an impoverished rural background in South Asia to a globalised and economically successful middle class in East Africa. Therefore this research sets an example of migration as an opportunity for social mobility. The study is based on empirical data collected with South Asians in Kenya, who were differentiated by gender, age, migratory generation and other social boundaries. The research is divided into three levels of analysis: interethnic and intra-ethnic relations, i.e. the relations within the South Asian minority, as well as the relations within the family. To understand the complexity of migrants' lives an approach of 'geographies of intersectionality' was developed which takes different intersecting social boundaries into account and additionally considers the significance of place. The study shows that migration has an impact on the relations between genders, age groups and migratory generations and leads to changing identities and new lifestyles. Book jacket.

Author : J. S. Mangat
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon P.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Asians in East Africa, C.1886 to 1945 written by J. S. Mangat and published by Oxford : Clarendon P.. This book was released on 1969 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical background of Asian presence in the East Africa countries of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda - refers to the period from 1886 to 1945, and covers immigrant Indian entrepreneurs and traders, political aspects of such immigration, economic implications, sociological aspects, working conditions of such immigrant workers, their social participation, etc. Bibliography pp. 179 to 204, and references.

Author : Lawrence William Hollingsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Asians of East Africa written by Lawrence William Hollingsworth and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. Forster
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230800068
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Ethnicity in East Africa written by P. Forster and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and ethnicity continue to be important, if unwelcome, factors in modern politics. This is evident in East Africa: the ethnic factor is often dominant in multi-party elections, while in Rwanda and Burundi bloodshed and genocidal attacks have been linked to ethnic difference. This book examines the phenomena of race and ethnicity in general, but with particular reference to Africa, especially the East. The impact of non-indigenous groups is considered, together with ethnic differences between Africans. The relevance of tourism and religion is also examined.

Author : Yash P. Ghai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of a Minority; Asians in East Africa written by Yash P. Ghai and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521375436
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Asians Overseas written by Colin Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers essays relating to the South Asian diaspora which occurred after slavery's end in the British Empire.

Author : Adam, Michel
Publisher : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9987082971
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Africa: Minorities of Indian-Pakistani Origin in Eastern Africa written by Adam, Michel and published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have minorities from the Indian sub-continent amongst their population. The East African Indians mostly reside in the main cities, particularly Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kampala; they can also be found in smaller urban centres and in the remotest of rural townships. They play a leading social and economic role as they work in business, manufacturing and the service industry, and make up a large proportion of the liberal professions. They are divided into multiple socio-religious communities, but united in a mutual feeling of meta-cultural identity. This book aims at painting a broad picture of the communities of Indian origin in East Africa, striving to include changes that have occurred since the end of the 1980s. The different contributions explore questions of race and citizenship, national loyalties and cosmopolitan identities, local attachment and transnational networks. Drawing upon anthropology, history, sociology and demography, Indian Africa depicts a multifaceted population and analyses how the past and the present shape their sense of belonging, their relations with others, their professional and political engagement.

Author : George Delf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asians in East Africa written by George Delf and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: