Indian Africa : minorities of Indian-Pakistani origin in Eastern Africa / edited by Michel Adam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michel, Adam, Editor.

Contributor:

Adam, Michel, africanist, editor.

Institut français de recherche en Afrique, issuing body.

Series:

Africae Studies

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

East Indians--Africa, East--History.

East Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Place of Publication:

Nairobi Africae 2015

Dar-es-Salaam : Mkuki Na Nyota, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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-religions 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 1980's. 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. This book is a must-read for contemporary researchers, students, policy practitioners as well as the general reader.

Contents:

From the trading-post Indians to the Indian-Africans / Michel Adam

Panorama of socio-religious communities / Michel Adam

East African Indians: how many are they? / Laurent Nowik

Family, family life and marriage among Indian communities in East Africa / Michel Adam

Nizarite Ismailis in Kenya / Colette Le Cour Grandmaison

Bohas in East Africa: orthodoxy and reformism / Nathalie Gomes

Merchants and industrialists of Indo-Pakistani origin in Kenya : a sociological overview / Gidraph G. Wairire

Living apart together: economic and spatial logic of Indian communities in Nakuru (Kenya) / Barbara Morovich

Migrations and identity of Indian-Pakistani minorities in Uganda / Godfrey B. Asiimwe

The minorities of Indian origin in Tanzania / Simeon Mesaki and Fatima G. Bapuma

"Indians are exploiters and Africans idlers!" Identity formation and socio-economic conditions in Tanzania / Marie-Aude Fouere

Indians and others: worlds unknown to each other-extracts of reports from the Kenyan press / Michel Adam

Portraits and fragments of life histories in Kenya / Michel Adam.

Notes:

Translation of Afrique indienne.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Published in association with: French Institute for Research in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya..

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 15, 2016).

ISBN:

9782957305810

295730581X

9789987753512

9987753515

OCLC:

966879871