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Indians in Kenya : the politics of diaspora
- Title
- Indians in Kenya : the politics of diaspora / Sana Aiyar.
- Author
- Aiyar, Sana, 1979-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Details
- Description
- 375 pages : maps; 25 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Harvard historical studies ; 185
- Uniform Title
- Harvard historical studies ; v. 185.
- Subjects
- Indigenous peoples
- East Indians
- South Asian diaspora
- Race relations
- National characteristics, Kenyan
- Asian diaspora
- Since 1963
- Kenya > History > 1963-
- Politics and culture
- Indigenous peoples > Kenya
- Kenya > Politics and government > 1963-1978
- History
- Kenya > Race relations
- Politics and government
- East Indians > Kenya
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-358) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-4002
- ISBN
- 9780674289888
- 0674289889
- LCCN
- 2014037068
- OCLC
- 891001683
- Author
- Aiyar, Sana, 1979- author.
- Title
- Indians in Kenya : the politics of diaspora / Sana Aiyar.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Harvard historical studies ; 185Harvard historical studies ; v. 185.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-358) and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1963
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-4002