India in Africa, Africa in India : Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms / edited by John C. Hawley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hawley, John C. (John Charles), 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Relations--Africa.

India.

Africa--Relations--India.

Africa.

Physical Description:

296 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

India in Africa, Africa in India traces the longstanding interaction between these two regions, showing that the Indian Ocean world provides many examples of cultural flows that belie our understanding of globalization as a recent phenomenon. This region has had, and continues to have, an internal integrity that touches the lives of its citizens in their commerce, their cultural exchanges, and their concepts of each other and of themselves in the world. These connections have deep historical roots, and their dynamics are not attributable solely to the effects of European colonialism, modernity, or contemporary globalization although these forces have left their mark. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume come from the fields of history, literature, dance, sociology, gender studies, and religion, making this collection unique in its recreation of an entire world too seldom considered as such."

Contents:

Introduction : unrecorded lives / by John C. Hawley

Slave trades and the Indian Ocean world / by Gwyn Campbell

India in Africa

The indentured experience : Indian women in Colonial Natal / by Devarakshanam Govinden

Shops and stations : rethinking power and privilege in British/Indian East Africa / by Savita Nair

Bhangra remixes / by Anjali Gera Roy

"Hindu" dance groups and Indophilie in Senegal : the imagination of the exotic other / by Gwenda Vander Steene

The idea of "India" in West African vodun art and thought / by Dana Rush

Politics and poetics of the namesake : Barlen Pyamootoo's Benares, Mauritius / by Thangam Ravindranathan

Africa in India

Siddi as mercenary or as African success story on the West Coast of India / by Rahul C. Oka and Chapurukha M. Kusimba

Religion and empire : belief and identity among African Indians of Karnataka, South India / by Pashington Obeng

Marriage and identity among the Sidis of Janjira and Sachin / by John McLeod

African Indians in Bollywood : Kamal Amrohi's Razia Sultan / by Jaspal Singh

List of contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-26314-5

9786612263149

0-253-00316-4

OCLC:

608152298