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Author |
: Sana Aiyar |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2015-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674425927 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674425928 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indians in Kenya by : Sana Aiyar
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 |
: Sana Aiyar |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2015-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674289888 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674289889 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indians in Kenya by : Sana Aiyar
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 |
: A. Greenwood |
Publisher |
: Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2014-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1349684120 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781349684120 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940 by : A. Greenwood
This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940. The story of these important Indian professionals presents a rare social history of an important political minority.
Author |
: Dana April Seidenberg |
Publisher |
: Vikas Publishing House Private |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015008618731 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Uhuru and the Kenya Indians by : Dana April Seidenberg
On the role of Asians in Kenya's independence struggle.
Author |
: Adam, Michel |
Publisher |
: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 504 |
Release |
: 2015-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789987082971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9987082971 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indian Africa: Minorities of Indian-Pakistani Origin in Eastern Africa by : Adam, Michel
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 |
: Jomo Kenyatta |
Publisher |
: African Books Collective |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1978-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789966566102 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9966566104 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Facing Mount Kenya by : Jomo Kenyatta
Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is a monograph on the life and customs of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya prior to their contact with Europeans. It is unique in anthropological literature for it gives an account of the social institutions and religious rites of an African people, permeated by the emotions that give to customs and observances their meaning. It is characterised by both insight and a tinge of romanticism. The author, proud of his African blood and ways of thought, takes the reader through a thorough and clear picture of Gikuyu life and customs, painting an almost utopian picture of their social norms and the sophisticated codes by which all aspects of the society were governed. This book is one of a kind, capturing and documenting traditions fast disappearing. It is therefore a must-read for all who want to learn about African culture.
Author |
: Christine Stephanie Nicholls |
Publisher |
: Timewell Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1857252063 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781857252064 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Red Strangers by : Christine Stephanie Nicholls
Kenya's forgotten history from its inception to independence in 1963.
Author |
: Pascale Herzig |
Publisher |
: LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3825800520 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783825800529 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis South Asians in Kenya by : Pascale Herzig
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 |
: A. Greenwood |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2016-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137440532 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137440538 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940 by : A. Greenwood
This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940. The story of these important Indian professionals presents a rare social history of an important political minority.
Author |
: Kenya Indian Congress |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 1963 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105081694726 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kenya Independence Day Souvenir by : Kenya Indian Congress