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Indians in Kenya : the politics of diaspora / Sana Aiyar.
LIBRA DT433.545.E27 A39 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aiyar, Sana, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Harvard historical studies ; v. 185.
- Harvard historical studies ; 185
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indians--Kenya.
- East Indians.
- Indigenous peoples--Kenya.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Race relations.
- Kenya--Politics and government--1963-.
- Kenya.
- Politics and government.
- National characteristics, Kenyan.
- Kenya--History--1963-.
- History.
- Kenya--Race relations.
- Politics and culture.
- Asian diaspora.
- South Asian diaspora.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 375 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "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 Afrians 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"-- Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- From the America of the Hindu to white man's country
- 'Civilization' in Kenya
- Political homelands across the Indian Ocean
- Between rebellion and suppression
- Negotiating nationhood
- Uhuru and exodus
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-358) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674289888
- 0674289889
- OCLC:
- 891001683
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