Settled strangers [electronic resource] : Asian business elites in East Africa (1800-2000) / Gijsbert Oonk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oonk, Gijsbert, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Asians--Africa--History.

East Asians.

East Asians--Africa--Social conditions.

East Asians--Africa--Economic conditions.

Businesspeople--Africa--History.

Businesspeople.

India--Emigration and immigration--History.

India.

Africa--Emigration and immigration--History.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Settled Strangers aims at understanding the social, economic and political evolution of the transnational migrant community of Gujarati traders and merchants in East Africa. The history of South Asians in East Africa is neither part of the mainstream national Indian history nor that of East African history writing. This is surprising because South Asians in East Africa outnumbered the Europeans ten-to-one. Moreover, their overall economic contribution and political significance may be more important than the history of the colonisers. This book is an attempt to provide som

Contents:

Settled strangers: from middleman minorities to world citizens

Asians in Africa 1880/1920: settling as an economic process

Asians in Africa 1880/1960: settling as a cultural process

Asians in Africa 1880/2000: settling and unsettling as a political process

A quest for an interdisciplinary history from below in explaining social change.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

81-321-1333-0